Cleverness Quote by Alastair Reynolds

“Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don’t know very much at all.”

— John Connolly

“He knows everything.He's just so ridiculously well-read that it's ridiculous! You just sit there and you feel quite a worm in comparison.”

— Brett Anderson Suede

“I knew how to make sense of complicated things, as long as they had nothing to do with me.”

— Roxane Gay

“All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated.”

— Tara Kelly

“Don’t confuse your desperate need to know everything with a regular human’s mere curiosity.”

— Eliza Crewe

“For a few minutes we didn’t move. All I was aware of were Alex’s hands, one resting in the small of my back, pulling…

— Sarah Alderson

“i said 'i don't know' because that had become my answer to everything.”

— David Levithan

“He realized he was thinking of Crake as someone he used to know.”

— Margaret Atwood

“and I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Like all intelligent people, I'm aware of just how little I know.”

— Tom Greer

“She knew him. Somehow. And wasn't that quite marvelous?”

— Glen David Gold

“I guess there are a lot of people who don't know the right thing to say. You don't notice them so much because they…

— Cath Crowley