Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.
