Quotes About Shrewdness

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

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

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.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

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.

Men who pride themselves on being shrewd in discovering the weak points, the vanity, the dishonesty, immorality, intrigue, and pettiness of others think they understand character. They know only a part of character. They know only the depths to which some men may sink; they know not the heights to which some men may rise.

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

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

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

Beaufort was vulgar, he was uneducated, he was purse-proud; but the circumstances of his life, and a certain native shrewdness, made him better worth talking to than many men, morally and socially his betters, whose horizon was bounded by the Battery and the Central Park.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

You have to have the common sense.

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

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

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

Sometimes "creativity" is just common sense.

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