Quotes About Shrewdness

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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

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

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

Football is a game, and people have to be cunning.

Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.

you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

There are different kinds of cleverness, Sara.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

he demonstrated a flexibility of principle that verged on opportunism.

Be smart and you won't be pushed around as much.

Machiavellian

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust.

Be prudent like Nestor and cunning like Odysseus.

He was one of those people, she thought, who just seemed to know a great deal. And he spoke so wisely, as if had thought for hours about everything he said.

Reed shook his head. "Pretty damned clever," he added, unable to keep admiration from his tone.