It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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.
I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
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.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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.
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.