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“The bold are helpless without cleverness.”

Book:Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women

Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women

“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it -benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.”

World Children Play Subjects Adults Stupidity Punishment Tyrants Annoyed Cleverness Amused Benevolent

Author:Viola Spolin

“Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.”

Projects Weakness Treats Cleverness Smartness

Author:Anuj

“A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.””

Mean Enjoy Term Community Security Computer Journalist Software Programmers Cleverness Hackers Mit

Author:Richard Stallman

“The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.”

Desire Becoming Clever Appearing Cleverness Pretension

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I'm not sure I had ever written a fan letter before to a poet I had not met, but that's what I did when I read two poems by Gregory Woods ... I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling ... What an enviable talent Gregory Woods has”

Two Feelings Used Written Fans Talent Poet Mets Letters Sake Woods Technique Not Sure Components Cleverness Virtuosity

Author:Thom Gunn

“When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.”

Hypocrisy Cleverness

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching

“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”

People Country Cities Corners Manifestation Righteousness Distrust Cleverness

Author:Edward Hoagland

“It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.”

Art Wise Prize Being Wise Cleverness

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

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