Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. Of Mice and Men

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. The Art Of War

The measure of a person's disposition is this: ... how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions. Basically we all understand the highest. A child, the simplest person, and the wisest all understand the highest. ... But what makes the difference is whether we understand it at a distance—so that we do not act accordingly, or close at hand—so that we act accordingly and "cannot do otherwise." Works of Love

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes