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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides
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Euripides
Greek
Poet
Died:
406 BC
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Cleverness
,
Without
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Bold
,
Helpless
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Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Huxley
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The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides
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Without
Bold
Helpless
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Paul Stamets
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Plant
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Bacteria
Find
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Never Underestimate
New
Underestimate
Dead
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Will
Clever
Nothing
Recognize
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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
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Ignorance
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Training
Evil
Bad
Neither
All Things
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Excessive
Terrible
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Greatest
Accompanied
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
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Ignorance
Learning
Too Much
Evil
Too
Extreme
Entire
More
Terrible
Cleverness
Greatest
Accompanied
Being
Far
Much
Ill
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
Tom Brown, Jr.
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Will
Be Patient
Drive
Patient
Ranked
Spirit
Above
Ten
Ten Times
Crow
Attack
Observers
Indomitable
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Cleverness
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Times
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Size
Them
Jay
Who
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
Arthur Smith
Day
Political
Nothing
Pun
Caring
Small
Void
Merely
Cleverness
Content
Issues
Exists
Itself
Social
Display
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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