Cunning Quotes - Page 7

Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives, at work or in government - we might experience a leap in prosperity. We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less irrationality.

Rolf Dobelli

Simple, Thinking, Errors

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Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

John Foxe

Kings, Church, World

John Foxe (2001). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, Barbour Publishing

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With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With cunning and quintessential stealth, with artful restraint, with whats fathering and foxy and filled with intelligence and wit, Michael Teig goes about making what seems to be invisible and unspeakable, the most palpable and important matter in the world.

Dara Wier

Important, Titles, World

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People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

S. I. Hayakawa

Philosophy, Selfish, Struggle

"Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

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A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Edgar Degas

Work Out, Deception, Crime

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You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

Determination, Struggle, Hard Work

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.158, Penguin

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In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.

Edward Coke

Law, Use, Curious

Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (Earl of) (1853). “The first part of the Institutes of the laws of England: or, A commentary upon Littleton. Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself ...”

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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Science, Two

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.89, Penguin

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Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Alexander Pope

Passion, Fool, Sincere

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 174

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To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

Gelett Burgess

Fun, Self, Games

Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

Running, Attitude, Laughing

Song: Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes, 1977

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Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Powerful, Way, Reason

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Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Henry Suso

Men, Giving, Doctrine

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To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

John Calvin

Heart, Men, Looks

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A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Mistress, Deceit, Deceiving

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Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present life, not allowing it to be blotted out by the dusk of sin and ignorance. In this way he will truly be able to put to flight the cunning demons that rise up against him.

Maximus the Confessor

Christian, Blessed, Ignorance

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That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.

William Hazlitt

Hurt, Men, Humanity

William Hazlitt (2016). “Characters of Shakespeare's Plays”, p.48, William Hazlitt

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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

Fear, Causes, Problem

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O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Herman Melville

Men, Soul, Mind

Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.339, Jazzybee Verlag

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Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Money, Heart, Greed

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It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

Tana French

Real, Smart, Believe

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Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War, Self, Cold

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Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

Winston Churchill

Russia, Rights, Political Opinions

Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

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

Jean de la Bruyere

Clever, Lying, Men

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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Herman Melville

Sorry, Men, Eden

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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