“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Ultimately, of course, you must decide for yourself whether the subjective psychological effects created by your evolved cognitive biases reflect an objective… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were the cleverest people, or the most experienced, in the world that followed 1945. The French… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none. — Ambrose of Optina Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The art of investment has one characteristic that is not generally appreciated. A creditable, if unspectacular, result can be achieved by the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,'… — Josh Trank Copy Share Image
She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness — François De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
