There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

I’m different,” said the Kid. “My gran always said I was half clever, half stupid, and half crazy.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

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.

The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.