Quotes About Shrewdness

If shrewdness and sharpness be a just cause of separation between man and wife, I think few men in England would keep their wives long.' The

playing "cautiously" is not the same as playing "smartly.

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

The rule is easy to understand.Be simple, honest & smart.

I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.

MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e mÄ…dro?? to tylko spryt wypatroszony z odwagi. WolaÅ'abym by? sprytna ni? mÄ…dra.

Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it.

Lord, thank you for using the foolish to confound the wise and the weak one: to shame the strong. Help us live with the shrewdness of serpents and the innocence of doves. Keep our feet from fatigue, our spirits from despair, and our hands from failing to rise in praise to you. Amen.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

You'd be surprised, you can do a lot more damage with your brains than with your fists.

But what McConnell lacked in charisma or interest in policy he more than made up for in discipline, shrewdness, and shamelessness—all of which he employed in the single-minded and dispassionate pursuit of power.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

I'm not an idiot.

I'm lucky that my best strength as a wrestler has always been my brain.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

despaired of any rest or contentment in a world grown too busy for beauty and too shrewd for dreams

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

I am intelligent, little do y'all know.

The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.

Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

adroitly that there was

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...