Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
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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.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
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.