Quotes About Shrewdness

So from here on out, we need to find a way to fight the killer with brains, not brawn. Attack this problem like scientists, not... Dirty Harry.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

You've got to have brains to play dumb.

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

Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

They think in terms of a sentimental ballad. And that's what terrifies you about them. It isn't their cruelty, it isn't even their shrewdness - it's their extraordinary naivete. Everything in their whole bloody world is a cliche. Everything is born out of a cliche, rests on a cliche, survives by a cliche. And they believe in the cliches - there's no hope

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

Listo es el que hace listezas.

We are to live with heavenly things in mind and with our feet firmly on the ground. We won't be redemptive forces for good if we don't grasp this, and our spiritual growth will be truncated. Personal piety alone won't cut it, but marry piety to shrewdness, as Jesus did, and you're on your way, Good Guy.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

Goodness is helpless without wits

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.

Cardan is clever, but it's not a nice kind of cleverness.

Were you a little less clever, perhaps you'd have had more success.

But once again, Lily Anne proved that she saw things a little more clearly and shrewdly than her dunderheaded father. As I wrestled with all the concepts of foreclosure and moving and personal inconvenience, she cut right to the heart of the matter with an insight that was sharp and compelling. She bounced three times on her powerful little legs and said, "Da. Da da da." And for emphasis, she reached out and pulled on my earlobe. I

Having studied politics doesn't necessarily give you political nous.

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

I've worked all my life not to be a simpleton.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.