Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.