Quotes About Shrewdness

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Vedi Jim, tu sei una persona intelligente. Molto intelligente. Lo sei sempre stato ma purtroppo ti accontenti di essere solo una persona furba.

richer, by far in coin than in wit

You must be wise and act with wisdom

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

She had a perfectly clear notion of what she wanted. Her emotions were all on the surface. Beneath, she was very shrewd—a far better judge of character than Sally, for instance, and with it all, purely feminine; with that extraordinary gift, that woman's gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be.

Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.

Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.

Old foxes want no tutors.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.

Common sense is the heart of investing and business management.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

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

Duplicity thy name is woman!

he had the patience to wait and the shrewdness to realize that the climate of material prosperity and of a feeling of relaxation which settled over Germany in those years was not propitious for his purposes.