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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
Albert Einstein
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.
Charles Krauthammer
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
Orson Scott Card
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.
Pittacus of Mytilene
it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
John Calvin
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John Steinbeck
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying - what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.
Virginia Woolf
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
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
Euripides
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.
J. William Fulbright
Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.
Benjamin Hoff
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Elbert Hubbard
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
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Charlie Chaplin
Courage, not cleverness; not even inspiration, is the grain of mustard that grows up to be a great tree.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Carolyn Wells
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