Quotes About Shrewdness

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

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.

Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.

And is not shrewdness a quickness or cleverness of the soul, and not a quietness?

Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

There's a difference between having an edge and being stupid.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Smart people don't have the luxury of playing stupid.

But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxious and even sinful, and as nothing was to be gained by exciting such hostility, it was better to give a silent or even smiling assent to the fatuous idealism to which, particularly in youth, one was so relentlessly exposed.

I'm very good at manipulation.

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.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

And what is our trickery, shrewdness, courage, obduracy? What else but - mind!

No fox is foxier than man!

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim. "I was tough and

Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.

Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force

But as I had learned earlier, the trick was not to figure out how not to be stupid, the trick was to be smart instead.

Too clever is dumb.

Richard was a smart guy, with lousy judgment.

Second, I was brilliant. Not just your run-of-the mill brilliance either. I was extraordinarily brilliant.

Stupidity is not my strong point.

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