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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

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 learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.