Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
Too clever is dumb.
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
No one says the word 'quirky' much in England. I guess because people are more naturally eccentric.