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“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord“JACK.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 absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.ALGERNON.We have.JACK.I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?ALGERNON.The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course.JACK.What fools!”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest“She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself”
the silly ones could never understand her wisdom“The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.”
W. C. Fields“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld“The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.”
Kenneth Grahame“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
François de La Rochefoucauld“Pious” is a sword that the clever always use it to eliminate the truth.”
Alireza Salehi Nejad, The Third World: Country or People“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War