It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl). — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Student: Master, you said that death is very cunning... Master: Yes, death is so cunning that it made everyone accept the lie… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its… — Evalyn Walsh McLean Copy Share Image
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed… — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot… — Edwin Paxton Hood Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
![“An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.” quote by Walt Whitman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/686/walt-whitman-265_brain_an-electric-chain-seems-to-vibrate-as-it_936513.jpg)
