Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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.
It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.