Top 60 Quotes About Outwit
#1. Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
John Frusciante
#2. The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
James A. Baldwin
#3. wed. Kareem would find it difficult to outwit
Jean Sasson
#4. Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#5. He likes to use his wit and verbal finesse to confuse others and win arguments. Although he can argue successfully that white is black and straight is crooked, you walk away with the feeling that he's won the argument not because he is correct but because you can't outwit him.
Liezi
#6. Too trying, this is all far too trying, Parma thought. An ogre I may outwit or a Rahg I may defeat, but a horde of frightened villagers? Auay! How does Brandegan put up with it?
Julius Bailey
#7. Outwit, outlast, outplay. It's the tagline for the television show Survivor and it's damn near what presidenting is like, too.
George W. Bush
#8. Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.
Steven Erikson
#10. Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. Ender's Game is not simply a story of an exceptional child who must outwit aliens in order to save the human race - it is the story of an exceptional child who fears he is a monster and is tricked into doing something monstrous.
Orson Scott Card
#12. Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Larry Fitzgerald
#13. In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
Tanith Lee
#14. You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
Daniel Craig
#15. We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it.
Vernon Howard
#16. Who's he going to outwit?" Sophia asked.
"Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants, and so there's nothing at all he really does want.
Tove Jansson
#17. Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
Kate Atkinson
#18. As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.
Erica Jong
#19. The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.
Ted Hughes
#20. Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
Laurence Sterne
#21. There is a time to submit and there is a time to outwit.
Ruth Graham
#22. You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.
Judith McNaught
#23. The goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing" ... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
Lawrence Kushner
#24. Far from being parasitic exploiters of the workers, most businessmen were innovators looking to outwit their rivals, by doing things better or cheaper, and in doing so they inevitably brought improvements to the living standards of consumers. Most
Matt Ridley
#26. We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.
S.J Perelman
#27. If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.
Doris Betts
#28. Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason Cooley
#29. Vyck had often encouraged him to engage an opponent's mind rather than its weapons. often this advice was accompanied by the casual remark that if he couldn't outwit a fox he shouldn't be in the woods.
Gwendolyn Druyor
#30. You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell
Judith McNaught
#31. Anyone can 'outwit' a person who trusts them --- it doesn't take any brains to do that --- all one needs is no sense of honor.
Shirley Watkins
#32. The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
Douglas McGregor
#33. Troube comes when a person starts asking for money; it never does what they think it will do. And then there's the problem of destiny. Things never turn out well when you try to outwit destiny. Only fools do that.
Kate Milford
#34. An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Criss Jami
#36. But Polybius brought out the basic lesson in his reflection-'for as a ship, if you deprive it of its steersman, falls with all its crew into the hands of the enemy; so, with an army in war, if you outwit or out-manoeuvere its general, the whole will often fall into your hands'.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#37. It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
Twyla Tharp
#38. Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
Nancy Gibbs
#39. Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
#40. If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
Harold Geneen
#41. I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.
Dave Lombardo
#42. A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
Margaret Mead
#43. You should get a permit, but don't attempt to outwit, and here's a tidbit." I pointed to my shoulder, "This is my armpit.
Penny Reid
#44. We can be saved, the Holy Spirit can dwell in us, and yet we can continually live in defeat because the enemy can outwit us if we do not depend on the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.
Beth Moore
#45. It needs only to be good enough, which in the case of our species meant a level of intelligence sufficient to enable us to outwit the competitors in our ecological niche
Ray Kurzweil
#46. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#47. Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.
Rumi
#48. The Manifesto was not a divine production but something manufactured to outwit the church's enemies.
Charles W. Penrose
#49. And I have learned now to live with it, learned when to expect it, how to outwit it, even how to regard it, when it does come, as more friend than lodger. We have reached a certain understanding, my migraine and I.
Joan Didion
#50. In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#51. You've done a good job of saying everything but how you feel," she said. "Sadness isn't something you get to get out of by being smart. You don't get to outwit this. You will have to deal with the pain at some point.
David Stuart MacLean
#52. Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else
Lemony Snicket
#53. Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
Aleister Crowley
#54. Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim
#55. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E.B. White
#56. In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.
Jim Davis
#60. If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.
Criss Jami
