“Always be smart; seldom be certain.”

“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”

“I've always felt that kids are really smart.”

“Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.”

“I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.”

“It is a distinguishing peculiarity of the Erewhonians that when they profess themselves to be quite certain about any matter, and avow it as a base on which they are to build a system of practice, they seldom quite believe in it. If they smell a rat about the precincts of a cherished institution, they will always stop their noses to it if they can.”

“When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.”

“I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.”

“The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.”

“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”