Quote by Ralph Richardson

“Live and learn from fools and from sages.”

— Aerosmith

“When I say a clever thing to people they look startled and uncomfortable. I should just like to be quiet for years and years…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an…

— Oscar Wilde

“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“It is vain to be the pupil of a sage if you have no brains yourself.”

— Publius Syrus

“God, he could be a prick. A moody, stubborn prick who I would avoid if I knew what was good for me. It seemed…

— Nina Levine

“Maybe the clever people are not the ones who think they’re clever. Maybe the clever people are the ones who accept that they know…

— Rachel Joyce

“How wise people thought themselves when they often knew nothing about what they were talking!”

— Amy Steedman

“What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools?”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“I might be old and cranky, but I'm not bloody stupid.”

— Jennifer Estep

“When I was young, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire people who are kind.”

— Martin Buber