“Beware of the clever ones; the dumb ones are safer.”
Source: The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern
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Source: The Design of Everyday Things
“Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.”
October 1991, quoted in the Tri-City Herald, published in Kennewick, Washington.
Former Gov. Dixy Lee Ray, speaking at a Forward Washington conference in Pasco, warned her audience against misuse of statistics. The Tri-City Herald quoted the always quotable Ray as saying: 'Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.' — Jean Godden, " How Many Lawyers Do You Need To Fry Spam? http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911009&slug=1309893", October 9, 1991, Seattle Times. Accessed 29 August 2012.
“No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.”
Il n'y a personne qui soit tenu d'être habile; mais il n'y en a point qui ne soit obligé d'être bon.
Aristippe, ou De la cour (1658), Discours VII.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 66.
Source: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (2010), Ch. 2: 'Life: Freak Side-Show or Cosmic Imperative?', p. 31
“The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken.”
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
“Beware of assumptions that seem “obvious” in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.”
Afterword (p. 661)
Earth (1990)
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.”
To Leon Goldensohn, March 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 29
“Sometimes one must be base in order not to be tricked by a clever man.”
Il suffit quelquefois d'être grossier pour n'être pas trompé par un habile homme.
Maxim 129.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)