Quotes About Cunning

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself.

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

richer, by far in coin than in wit

Intelligence, of course, is not necessarily equated to morality; indeed can become perilous if applied to nefarious purposes.

The Vatican has a reputation for secrecy and intrigue. If I have my way, that will cease. But in any large organization there are always groups who seek to have their way with power and cunning.

Furthermore, it is now absolutely clear that white people are a minority in the world—so severe a minority that they now look rather more like an invention—and that they cannot possibly hope to rule it any longer. If this is so, why is it not also possible that they achieved their original dominance by stealth and cunning and bloodshed and in opposition to the will of Heaven, and not, as they claim, by Heaven's will?

The kind of knowledge required in such endeavors is not deductive knowledge from first principles but rather what Greeks of the classical period called métis, a concept to which we shall return. Usually translated, inadequately, as "cunning," métis is better understood as the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances.

Yabu-san's a violent man with no scruples whatsoever. He honors nothing but his own interests. Duty, loyalty, tradition, mean nothing to him. His mind has flashes of great cunning, even brilliance. He's equally dangerous as ally or enemy.'     'All commendable virtues. What's to be said against him?'     'A

Remember that fortune and misfortune should be left to heaven and natural law. They are not to be bough by prayer or any cunning device to be thought of by any man or self-styled saint. p848

the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young.

When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.

Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

You don't have to use aggression to squash somebody. You have to use your brain.

That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.