Playful Cleverness

Famous quotes containing the words playful and/or cleverness:

“Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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 (c. 427–347 B.C.)