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Cleverness Quotes by Laozi
- If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one…
- Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
- When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace…
- When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.
More Cleverness Quotes
- Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. — Dave Barry
- Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead… — William Bernbach
- Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. — Arnold Bennett
- I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown
- We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will… — Tom Brown, Jr.
- The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your… — Jean de la Bruyere
- I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age… — Julie Burchill
- Clever men are good, but they are not the best. — Thomas Carlyle
- Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a… — Walter de La Mare
- Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. — Sun Tzu