The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.
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.
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's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.