Shrewdness Quotes

• Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

  Will Rogers

  Honestidad, Hombres, Mundo

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.79, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

  Juan Calvino

  Stupid, Men, Understanding

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• Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

  Josh Billings

  Children, May, Firsts

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• Toda la astucia del "hombre" busca una cosa: poder vivir sin responsabilidades.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Responsibility, Men, Able

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

  Steven Pinker

  Swiftness, Agility, Controversial

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• Un príncipe que no es sabio no puede ser sabiamente aconsejado. . . . El buen consejo depende de la astucia del príncipe que lo busca, y no la astucia del príncipe sobre el buen consejo.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Wise, Advice, Depends

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• Hitler, who founded the Third Reich, who ruled it ruthlessly and often with uncommon shrewdness, who led it to such dizzy heights and such a sorry end, was a person of undoubted, if evil genius. It is true that in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, he found a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends.

  William L. Shirer

  Sorry, History, Evil

  William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Love, Success, Education

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• All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

  Hetty Green

  Dear, Persistent, Thrift

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• The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Focus, Size

  Gabriel Zaid "Tantos libros: Leer y publicar en la era de la abundancia", Paul Dry Books

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• ¿Por qué necesitas astucia callejera? ¿Astucia? ¿Dureza? Es para proteger algo blando que va a estar en peligro si se expone en el momento y lugar equivocados. Es para proteger un alma. Pero para proteger tu alma, tienes que tener una para empezar.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Smart, Soul, Needs

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• El buen obispo de Asís expresó una especie de horror ante la dura vida que llevaban los Hermanitos en la Porciúncula, sin comodidades, sin posesiones, comiendo todo lo que podían conseguir y durmiendo de cualquier manera en el suelo. San Francisco le respondió con esa curiosa y casi asombrosa sagacidad que los no mundanos pueden a veces blandir como un garrote de piedra. Dijo: 'Si tuviéramos posesiones, necesitaríamos armas y leyes para defenderlas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brother, Sleep, Law

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• There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Money, Men, Order

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). "Cartas: seleccionadas y editadas con una introd. y notas de Howard Mumford Jones, en asociación con Walter B. Rideout".

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• Those who fled will fight another time.

  Tertuliano

  Time, Fighting, Flight

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• Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Country, Unique, People

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• What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Boys, Compare, Wells

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). "Escritos escogidos de Elbert Hubbard...".

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