Clever Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

— Bertrand Russell

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

— John Steinbeck

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

— Marquis de Sade

A genius always presents himself as a fool

— Karim Seddiki

“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All men do,…

— Mark Lawrence

“The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.”

— Sammy Toora

It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper