Cunning Quote by Samuel Johnson

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Alexander Pope

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

— Samuel Johnson

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

— Henry Fielding

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a…

— Richard M. Weaver

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more…

— Walter Raleigh