Top 23 Quotes About Astuteness: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Astuteness

#1. The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!

Edith Wharton

#2. The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#3. In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularized by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.

James Joyce

#6. Sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Agatha Christie

#7. A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that pre-dominancy has been brought about either by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.

W.K. Marriott

#8. Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

John Heywood

#9. London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

Robyn Davidson

#10. OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

Douglas Coupland

#11. I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Angelina Grimke

#12. People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

Michelle Obama

#13. There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Les Miles

#14. I don't really have the time or energy to be bad ...

Sky Ferreira

#15. Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

Annie Lennox

#16. Agape is your genesis. Loving everyone around you is what you are all about." (Our love for one another is awakened by God's love for us.)

Francois Du Toit

#17. Writing code is not production, it's not always craftsmanship though it can be, it's design.

Joel Spolsky

#18. It was reported that Anna Kournikova is coming out with her own brand of deodorant. Apparently, the ads show Kournikova holding up her deodorant and saying now only her tennis game stinks.

Conan O'Brien