Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
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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.
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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.
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Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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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
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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Ephesians 4:14:
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.
(NIV)
So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead.
(AMP)
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
(KJV)
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A lifetime of cleverness can be interrupted by moments of stupidity.
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A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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It is little that one gains by cleverness.
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