Cleverness Quote by Euripides Download Open image “Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.” — Euripides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cleverness Death Inspirational Love Mortals Thinking Wisdom
“Cleverness builds ever more elaborate structures of self-justification… But in the end you know what is and what is not right. All men do,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who… — Euripides Copy Share
It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can. — Christopher Strachey Copy Share Image
I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise, He coucheth Time's unhasting stride, Following, following, him whose eyes Look not to Heaven. For all is vain, The pulse of the heart, the plot of the brain, That striveth beyond the laws that live. And is thy… — Euripides Copy Share
There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out… — Euripides 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 as evidence that God designed your mind to be so receptive to Him. Or, just maybe, you will come to acknowledge that, like the rest of us, you are a hopeless pawn in one of natural… — Jesse Bering Copy Share
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 consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share
“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were the cleverest people, or the most experienced, in the world that followed 1945. The French were rather more civilized, the British more knowledgeable, and even the Italians at times more practical. But if you have the ships, the guns, and the money, too, cleverness or experience is not really necessary. Even a reasonable… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share
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 "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
