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Tag Name "Cleverness" (116)

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More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Charlie Chaplin
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
Dallas Willard
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We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness we know it because God has revealed it.
Mark Dever
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The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Paul Stamets
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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.
Randolph Bourne
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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arnold Bennett
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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
Winston Graham
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I don't believe people let things slide away. It's the nature of the universe that everything dissolves into oblivion and by every route possible, but human beings invest a lot of cleverness trying to cling to past events, real or imagined. And because we can't succeed, we get angry and frustrated and feel guilty. Except the Buddhists.
Robert Reed
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What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
Jeff Bezos
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Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
Khalil Gibran
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We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin
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The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.
Todd Haynes
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A liar is a man who does now know how to deceive, a flatterer one who only deceives fools: he who knows how to make skilful use of the truth, and understands its eloquence, can alone pride himself in cleverness.
Luc de Clapiers
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How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.
Orson Scott Card
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Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.
Quentin Tarantino
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We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.
Susan Mitchell
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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.
Plato
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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
Criss Jami
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It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.
Jaco Pastorius
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