When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

Particularly marijuana, I think is a great hypocrisy. I think frankly it contributes to a good deal of the sense of unfairness you have…

— Barney Frank

“Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.”

— Lao Tzu

I've listened to Republicans say over and over again that we should focus on enforcing the laws that we have. The great hypocrisy of…

— Chris Murphy

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

— Laozi

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

— Ambrose of Optina

“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

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

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

— John Lubbock

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

— Anonymous

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

— Leon Kass

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

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

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

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

— François de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Wayne W. Dyer