“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.”
“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”
“He was a wise man who invented God.”
“Stupid speaks loudly; he makes noise like pigs! Wise man speaks calmly; he makes sound like quiet lakes!”
“The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop”