I really like clever men who challenge you.
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.
I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.
In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.
Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.
Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.
Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
The aim of all spiritual practice is love.
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.
Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.
All true success flows out of giving something to someone.
True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.
The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.
Blessed if you do... Blessed if you don't... Blessed no matter what!
Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.
This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
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