![]() In China, scholars were generally Confucianist in training and orientation, and therefore often spoke a somewhat different language from the Taoists, who tended to see Confucianist scholars as busy ants spoiling the picnic of life, rushing back and forth to pick up the bits and pieces dropped from above.ĩ. “Unfortunately, some people – who always seem to think they’re smarter than fish and birds, somehow – aren’t so wise, and end up causing big trouble for themselves and others.”Ĩ. Benjamin Hoff, the Tao of Pooh Click To TweetĦ. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with. Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Fortunately for everyone, the plan failed, as Clever Plans do, sooner or later.ĥ. ![]() ![]() Then he began thinking of a way to make them leave. ![]() Remember when Kanga and Roo came to the Forest? Immediately, Rabbit decided that he didn’t like them, because they were Different. “We’ve come to wish you a Very Happy Thursday,” said Pooh … “Why, what’s going to happen on Thursday?” asked Rabbit, and when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was made up of Important Things, said, “Oh, I thought you’d really come about something”Ĥ. “Rabbit is clever … Rabbit has Brain… that’s why he never understands anything.”ģ. The thing that makes someone truly different-unique, in fact-is something that Cleverness cannot really understand.Ģ.
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