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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart."

Inspirational Attitude Clever
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible."

Believe Mean Clever
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished."

Men Emotional Clever
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Al Murray Comedian, Actor
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"I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I'm doing nothing, but... hanging out with clever and interesting people is a must if you're writing comedy, like hanging out with a good bass player when you're a drummer."

Writing Player Clever
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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley"

Men Clever Huxley
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that."

Men Jobs Clever
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right."

Men Fool Clever
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Thandie Newton Actress
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"Humans are really interesting. We're so clever, what we do with our brain. How we manage to con ourselves into thinking all sorts of things is really fascinating. By the same token, if we could just convince ourselves of things that would gather us together and powerfully turn things around for the good, that would be awesome. It's doubtful because we're such a fear-based species."

Thinking Interesting Clever
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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
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"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."

Cities Should Have Clever
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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant."

People Clever One Liner
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Laozi Philosopher
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"Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength."

Inspirational Integrity Clever
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