A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever – even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason

There’s a difference between a clever person and a smart one. Smart people make their own ways, and clever people use their minds to usurp opportunities to walk on the paths made by others.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.