Honesty usually means honesty and loyalty. Most honest people abide by rules and discipline, and most honest people are honest people. For honest people, if others say one thing, they believe one thing, and others say two things, honest people naturally trust others. Because they are kind, they naturally think that others are kind. Nowadays, not only are there fewer and fewer honest people, but even the title of honest people seems to be less favorable. Cleverness often refers to wit and acumen. Cleverness is an affirmation of human wisdom. In reality, some people are very smart. They suck the essence from bones. If you get hairy, I'm afraid even monkeys will die. I was going to say that intelligence is a positive evaluation of people, but it seems to be derogatory again. It can be seen that everything has two sides. Honesty is good, but it can't be excessive. If you overdo it, you may be pedantic and stupid. Excessive words may be mistaken for cleverness.
Honesty is undoubtedly an advantage, and cleverness is undoubtedly an advantage. Why do we put them in opposition? Because, at this time, honesty in our eyes is not honesty, but cleverness, and cleverness at this time is not just cleverness. As the gap becomes more and more obvious, the opposition becomes more and more prominent. A man should be honest, but this is not unconditional. One can't be honest with everyone. To be honest with people who shouldn't be honest is to be dishonest and cruel to yourself. To be a man, you should also have a little aura and not be too stupid, but cleverness is not used everywhere. Be smart when you should be smart, and don't be smart when you should be smart, that is to be smart. If a person should be honest when he should be honest and smart when he should be smart, then both can definitely make a person have both, but the reality is often more skinny.
Let's analyze it from another angle. Isn't honesty a kind of cleverness? True great wisdom: "Buddha is the heart, Tao is the bone, Confucianism is the table, and the world is open." Skills in hand, you can be in it, thinking in your head, and live calmly. Reading history for three thousand years is nothing more than fame and fortune; Wan Li's enlightenment, after all, poetry and wine are idyllic. "The so-called sincerity is to let the sky roll, listen to the flowers in front of the court, only smell the flowers, don't talk about sadness and joy, read and drink tea, race against time, clean your mind, listen to Zen in the snow, and live calmly. This is a smart life! Smart is not necessarily smart? Intelligence without honesty as its connotation is not true intelligence. This means that cleverness has a bottom line, and cleverness cannot be unrestrained. If intelligence loses control and intelligence loses its bottom line, I'm afraid disaster is not far away, so we must be cautious.
Being a man is inseparable from cleverness, and even more inseparable from honesty. Smart as talent, honest as virtue. To be a man, it is best to have both ability and political integrity, that is, both ability and political integrity. If a man is virtuous before talent, sincere before wisdom, such a person can often become a reliable person in his family and a pillar of society. The next best thing is to have virtue but no talent, or to be honest and not smart. Such people are often trustworthy. Although they may not be perfect, they will not be opportunistic, and they will complete the task meticulously. As for talented people without virtue, that is, smart and dishonest people, such people are often the most restless. Once in power, such people may bring immeasurable losses to the country, society and units. Finally, people who have no virtue and no talent, that is, people who are dishonest and not smart, no matter what, being dishonest and not smart, even if it is harmful, is no big deal! In a word, it is necessary to be an honest and intelligent person. If you can't be an honest but not clever person, this may be the way that honesty and cleverness tell us to be human!