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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.