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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Plato

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Benjamin Franklin

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

William Rounseville Alger

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

Mary Gaitskill

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Samuel Johnson

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

Horace

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Seneca the Younger

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Plato

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

Esther Hicks

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.

Edsger Dijkstra

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

Jane Smiley

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