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Quotes About Astuteness

It is great cleverness to know when to conceal ones cleverness.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.
~ Toba Beta
Henry Halleck was a pedant and a military bureaucrat, but he was not an easy man to fool,
~ Stephen W. Sears
I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.
~ Ed Reed
Look, the American people are smart.
~ John Kennedy
Remember to be as smart as you are.
~ Judd Nelson
I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.
~ Rickey Henderson
I hate to be smart.
~ Paulo Coelho
I do believe all actors are smart.
~ Ron Silver
Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.
~ Lawrence Schiller
I believe in smart people.
~ Killer Mike
People are smarter than you might think.
~ John Astin
I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
~ Jack Whitehall
I'm a little smarter than most.
~ John Rhys-Davies
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
~ Carl Sagan
When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.
~ Terry Goodkind
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
~ Terry Pratchett
I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!
~ Terry Pratchett
Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.
~ Audrey Meadows
Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
~ Karin Slaughter
Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.
~ Matthew William Goode
You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.
~ Kim Shattuck
so much protection prevented her from acquiring any astuteness or intuitive sense. Concealed beneath her flirtatious attitude was an astonishing naïveté.
~ Isabel Allende