Quotes About Shrewdness

The sharp employ the sharp.

Those with bad luck should at least attempt to balance it with good sense.

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

This thy wit hath no wit.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

That's it, she'd buy some off a dead man and she could put them in a box and take them to important meetings and bang them on the table to get her way. Maybe she'd buy four…

I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

And I'm a little mean to people who are dumb. And most people are dumb.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

It is true I do not suffer fools. I

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

You have to be smart as a football player.

famed intelligence had become a kind of shrewdness, relying mostly on past observations and past decisions rather than on what she saw in the immediate present.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls practical intelligence. To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what psychologist Robert Sternberg calls 'practical intelligence'. To Sternberg, 'practical intelligence' includes things like: knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.

use your brain as cleverly as you use your hips and mouth.

critical powers. You stifle your shrewdness. Before you know it you are paying a humongous divorce settlement to a woman who had more than once declared that she was an innocent who had no understanding of money matters.

where perspicacity is weakened,

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

And this is how I see it today: it's not the neighborhood that's sick, it's not Naples, it's the entire earth, it's the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.

And that is how I see it today: it's not the neighborhood that's sick, it's not Naples, it's the entire earth, it's the universe, or universes. And shrewdness means hiding and hiding from oneself the true state of things.