Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge."
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Cleverness
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jeff Bezos
Entrepreneur
"Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice."
Euripides
Playwright
"The bold are helpless without cleverness."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever."
Homer
Poet
"It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise."
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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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"Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days."
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"When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy."
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"The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve."
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"We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all."
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"Trade your cleverness for bewilderment."
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"Cleverness becomes a public nuisance."
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"Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness."
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