Cleverness Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cleverness Pounds Prudence Wit
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ( Get Out or Get in Line , 1928)” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed. — Petronius Copy Share Image
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
“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, reductionist, fragmented,… — 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, and gets… — 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 reality, perhaps… — 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 escape the… — 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 were rather… — 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