Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it
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Cleverness is not wisdom
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing
Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind
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When put to the test, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness
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Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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We threw memory at any problem we could find; that was really the cleverness of [the Alto]
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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
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A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.
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Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
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Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside. It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role to play. Andby the fact that one knows when to use cleverness and kick wisdomaside, is another wisdom of its own.
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Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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