Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.