Quotes About Cunning

One thing i hate about being smart is that you notice everything even when someone is trying to fool you.

Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

It was true. Odysseus' favorite task was the sort that only had to be performed once: raiding a town, defeating a monster, finding a way inside an impenetrable city.

Frail she was, but crafty, with a mind like a spike-toothed

Beautiful Scylla, dainty-doe Scylla, Scylla with her viper heart. Why had she done such a thing? It was not love, I had seen the sneer in her eyes when she spoke

secret of the warrior-heart of Jesus. Second, a warrior is cunning. He knows when to fight and when to run; he can sense a trap and never charges blindly ahead;

There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

I wish I had a Special Little Signal to let a girl know that she is being played.

They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.

It was not murder that exiled me, it was my lack of cunning.

Brains are an asset, if you hide them.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Era, encara que no ho semblés, molt més llest que jo, perquè sempre són més llestos aquells que estan disposats a prescindir del nostre consentiment.

Every other predator has to rely on cunning, camouflage, trickiness, blindshots, selective targeting, stealth, and, most importantly, its prey's lack of awareness.

There is in woman something of the unconscious function of drugs which are cunning without knowing it, like morphine.

Artificial methodizing of spiritual truths may make men ready in notions, cunning and subtile in disputations; but it is the Scripture itself that is able to "make us wise unto salvation.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

The truth is the most cunning of enemies. It launches its attacks upon the points of our heart at which we were not expecting them, and have prepared no defence.