Cleverness Is Not Wisdom Quotes

#1. Cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

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

Euripides

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Tessa Dare

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

Ellis Peters

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

Sogyal Rinpoche

#8. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

David Foster Wallace

#11. I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

Howard Hodgkin

#12. 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

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

Wendell Berry

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

Watchman Nee

#15. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#16. 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

#17. The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Emmuska Orczy

#18. The kind of person who listens to our music doesn't want to live a bit and die a little and find a friend. The kind of person who listens to our music wants to live forever and die a lot and fall in love.

Ray Robertson

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.

Cesar Chavez

#22. The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle.

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

Mahesh Babu

#24. If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

Nora Roberts

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

Aleister Crowley

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. In the Bhagavad Gita, there is no long discussion, nothing elaborate. The main reason for this is that everything stated in the Gita is meant to be tested in the life of every man; it is intended to be verified in practice.

Vinoba Bhave

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

Criss Jami

#32. 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

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

Rumi

#34. Even in death may you be triumphant.

Darren Shan

#35. 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

#36. Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Virginia Woolf

#37. But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

Debbie Harry