Ben Sira 21:12

12 You have to be intelligent to learn anything; but there is such a thing as just pretending to be intelligent, which only makes people bitter.

Ben Sira 21:12 In-Context

10 The road that sinners walk is smooth and paved, but it leads to the world of the dead.

11 Whoever wants to keep the Law must learn what the Law means. If you fear the Lord in every sense of the term, you will have wisdom.

12 You have to be intelligent to learn anything; but there is such a thing as just pretending to be intelligent, which only makes people bitter.

13 A wise person's knowledge is like a river that never runs dry, like an everflowing stream of good advice.

14 A fool, on the other hand, has a mind like a jar with a hole in it; anything he learns is soon lost.