Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Too clever is dumb.
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.