Cleverness And Wisdom Quotes

#1. Cleverness and wisdom are not inevitable yoke-fellows.

Ellis Peters

#2. The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Watchman Nee

#3. For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Evangeline Walton

#4. Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Tessa Dare

#5. It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. You're so perfect," I murmured to him as we came up for air. "I can't believe you're all mine."
His laugh was rough and breathless. "I'm as far from perfect as a person can get, but I am all yours.

R.K. Lilley

#7. Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Henri Poincare

#8. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#9. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.

Gregory David Roberts

#10. Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Cleverness as opposed to wisdom. Wanting and having instead of thinking and making.

David Foster Wallace

#12. Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

#13. It is as well now and then not to remember all we know.

Publilius Syrus

#14. 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

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

Wendell Berry

#16. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#17. For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

Therese Walsh

#18. 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

#19. Blood on the kitchen floor. Called

Robert Pobi

#20. 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

#21. Cleverness is egocentric, dramatic, gives you an illusion of success. We are always running behind it and ultimately suffer. Whereas simplicity is spiritual, blissful, not dramatic, simple but joyful and gives inner peace. Which is our ultimate goal.

Debasish Mridha

#22. I actually think that working in the federal government, or state or local, is one of the most significant things that a technical person can do.

Megan Smith

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

Mahesh Babu

#24. Although some Jews "traveled by donkey," the Jews of Spain, for the most part, walked out of their country. These refugees were the "scholars, the sons and daughters of families who had served their monarchs . . . shoemakers, tanners, butchers, the old, the pregnant, [and] the young."6

Gloria Golden

#25. Kindness is true wisdom - not cleverness.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Skyler often thought that the Seneca quotation Poe included was a dig at Dupin-or perhaps Poe himself: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness." "That's for sure," said Skyler aloud. "Or more succintly put, 'No one likes a smart ass'.

Haley Walsh

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

Euripides

#28. The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.

Theophan The Recluse

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

Aleister Crowley

#30. Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind - unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body's problem, not the mind's. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.

Epictetus

#31. Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role to play. Andby the fact that one knows when to use cleverness and kick wisdomaside, is another wisdom of its own.

Emmanuel Aghado

#32. Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Criss Jami

#33. She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

Henry James

#34. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

#35. My mom is one of 14 children. She's a great lady. She's a Taurus. Has been a profound influence in my life, still is to this day. Born in meager surroundings in rural South Carolina.

Julius Erving

#36. Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Virginia Woolf

#37. The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#38. I don't know. That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Alastair Reynolds