Cunning Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cunning Silly Wisdom Wise
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 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
Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her. "You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend… — Olivia Cunning Copy Share Image
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
