#cleverness

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ↗

— Rumi

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#people #death

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#foolishness #intelligence #madness #passion #intelligence

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#choice #cleverness #good-looks #questions #beauty

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#cleverness #come #down #green #heights

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#more #patience #tenacity #than #their