More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

“Rumi observed, “Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,…

— Joel Salatin

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets…

— Voltaire

Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective reality, perhaps…

— Jesse Bering

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

— Leon Kass

Sometimes people try way too hard to sound clever on Facebook.

— Anonymous

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

— John Lubbock

What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the…

— J. William Fulbright

“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were the cleverest people, or the most experienced, in the world that followed 1945. The French were rather…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

— Ambrose of Optina

Human integrity is determined by the heart, not by cleverness.

— Senora Roy

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith

The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the lay investor…

— Benjamin Graham

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it…

— George Steiner