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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When intellectual cleverness arises, great hypocrisy begins.

—Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (Dao De Jing), Book of the Way
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #cleverness #hypocrisy #authenticity #critique
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The desire to appear clever often prevents us from becoming so.

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections on Diverse Subjects (Réflexions diverses)
Category: PsychologyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #cleverness #vanity #learning #wisdom
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Cast off your cleverness, dismantle your intellectual cages, and return to pristine wonder.

—Zhuangzi, The Book of Zhuangzi, Chapter 10
Category: Wisdom & Self-KnowledgeMood: BoldTags: #zhuangzi #wonder #cleverness #innocence #simplicity
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive; but great cleverness and much learning, if accompanied by a perverse upbringing, is a far greater evil.

—Plato, Phaedo
Category: WisdomMood: PhilosophicalTags: #education #morality #character #cleverness
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

—Rumi, The Rubaiyat of Rumi
Category: WisdomMood: PhilosophicalTags: #bewilderment #cleverness #intuition #wonder
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