Quotes of: Cunning Keyword

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Renee Vivien

We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.

Rick Yancey

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Jean Genet

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

George W. Bush

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Mikhail Lermontov

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

Pablo Casals

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cynthia Ozick

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

John Berger

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Freedom from the Known

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Paul Davies

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Martin Luther

The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

Don DeLillo