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Tag Name "Cleverness" (116)

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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.
Bill Hicks
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
Oscar Wilde
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I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness
Wendell Berry
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A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
Robert Kiyosaki
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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
Tom Peters
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Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
Arthur Wallis
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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
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Chandler
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
Homer
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
Joel Salatin
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cleverness is a disease.
Rumer Godden
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They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.
James G. March
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal
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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.
Sun Tzu
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People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.
Thomas Huxley
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Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
George MacDonald
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It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.
Keith Jarrett
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
Jeff Bezos
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I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and as often as you want, but everything must be consumed naked in front of a full-length mirror. That would deter me!
Gene Weingarten
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