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Quotes About Shrewdness

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
~ T. S. Eliot
Successful investing is all about common sense.
~ John C. Bogle
It is great cleverness to know when to conceal ones cleverness.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.
~ Steve Harvey
If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.
~ Toba Beta
I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.
~ John D. Rockefeller
I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.
~ Ed Reed
Look, the American people are smart.
~ John Kennedy
I hate to be smart.
~ Paulo Coelho
I do believe all actors are smart.
~ Ron Silver
People are smarter than you might think.
~ John Astin
When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.
~ Terry Goodkind
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.
~ Terry Pratchett
I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!
~ Terry Pratchett
I forget nothing, Ms. Lane. I omit." "And evade." "Lie, cheat, and steal," he agreed. "If the shoe fits.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.
~ Karin Slaughter
I had an inkling there was a razor-sharp intellect, a shrewd individual within the fluff of Livvy's persona. There was another side to Sacramante, something which I'd caught an echo of as a girl, something that intrigued and seduced the unwary. Liviana was an intiate of its mysteries, but I knew I'd never learn its secrets from her.
~ Storm Constantine
You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.
~ Kim Shattuck
The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.
~ Kathryn Smith
You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
~ Cervantes
Old foxes want no tutors.
~ Thomas Fuller
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
~ Anonymous