Quotes About Astuteness

I suppose it's part of being a good politician to be able to spot the most important men in any group without outside assistance.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Just because you may be a Genious, does not mean you are Smart.

Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.

It's not how hard you play and train that matter it's how smart."  

The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had placed one by one in enviable niches of existence!

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

I'd have to play this smart … which was not my usual style.

You might not be the smartest feller in town, but you've got more sense than most people.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace when a two will do.

Common sense is genius in homespun.