Quotes About Astuteness

This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.

draw upon his knowledge of the world, if he read in a newspaper the names of the people who had been at a dinner-party, could tell at once its exact degree of smartness, just as a man of letters, simply by reading a sentence, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she'd drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.

Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

No fox is foxier than man!

Too clever is dumb.

Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, detective independiente, se tomó el cuerpo con las manos y se estrechó en un autoabrazo solitario, en la oscuridad lunar y la lluvia. «No contaban con mi astucia», se dijo, citando al Chapulín Colorado. Su reserva de frases absurdas era enorme.

Richard was a smart guy, with lousy judgment.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. So

Stupidity is not my strong point.

They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.