It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
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 is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.
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.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.