Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
I am so smart. I am so smart. I am so smart. S-M-R-T ... Uh, I mean S-M-A-R-T.
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
cleverness is a disease.
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.
One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.