I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but 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.
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.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
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.