To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.