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Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

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Euripides
Greek - Poet
480 BC - 406 BC

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

David Icke

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

Euripides

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

Wendell Berry

It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".

Richard Stallman

Comforting Wealth comes by good work, by wisdom it increases, cleverness stabilizes it and by patience it is preserved.

Mahesh Babu

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Aleister Crowley

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

Tobias Hill

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

E. F. Schumacher

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

Cassandra Clare

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

Walter de La Mare

There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange

Winston Churchill

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Rumi

Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Rumi

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.

Edward Hoagland

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Benjamin Hoff

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