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

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

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory. – Benjamin Disraeli

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows. – Henry Ward Beecher