"Trade your cleverness for bewilderment." — Rumi

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• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish… — Frank Moore Colby
• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. — Rumi
• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever… — Dorothy L. Sayers
• Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we… — Stephen Levine
• This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or… — Stephen Batchelor
• The context of the general teachings is one of talking to a sentient being who is experiencing uninterrupted bewilderment –… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
• In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of… — Sakyong Mipham
• We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or… — Laurence Binyon
• Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise… — Plato
• Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and… — Al-Ghazali

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