Top 39 Quotes About Shrewdness
#1. Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
Warren Bennis
#2. Our children's salvation is not dependent on the strength of our faith or the shrewdness of our answers.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#3. (Then) appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.
Lao-Tzu
#4. 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
#5. Modern amorists are sometimes taken aback at the prospect of investing in a relationship with no guarantee of reward. It is precisely that absence, however, that separates gift from shrewdness. Love cannot be extracted, commanded, demanded, or wheedled. It can only be given. (208)
Thomas Lewis
#6. Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with.
Peter Schjeldahl
#7. All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.
Soren Kierkegaard
#8. Wit, shrewdness about other aspects of life, grasp of the arts, fundamental good nature, none seemed any help in solving his emotional problems; to some extent these qualities, as displayed by him, were even a hindrance.
Anthony Powell
#9. 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
#10. What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
Elbert Hubbard
#11. 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
#12. Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.
George Eliot
#13. A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised ... Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#14. 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
#15. All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.
Hetty Green
#16. 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.
John Calvin
#17. Such a sweet letter from Lady Conway ... You remember my telling you about her? Her memory's bad. Can't recognize her relations always and tells them to go away."
"That might be shrewdness really," said Miss Marple, "rather than a loss of memory.
Agatha Christie
#18. This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.
John Steinbeck
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. The Messiah supersedes all things and comes as the fullness of all things. There is no historical supersession of anything
Joshua B. Davis
#22. Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
Lalla Ward
#23. Education always precedes experience but Your real victory is when you Experience something you haven't been educated for and you Excel.
Vikrmn
#24. A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.
Angelica Hopes
#25. I had no money to start,
For Jack decreed in his pride:
The Caveman's wife didn't work -
It was his job to provide.
A brief reminder right here:
Let men believe they are shrewd,
But even women of old
Embroidered mittens for food.
Joyce Rachelle
#28. Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#29. A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.
Sky Ferreira
#30. No soul willfully does wrong.
Plato
#32. The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
Franz Grillparzer
#33. But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?
Plato
#34. I feel sorry for Rick Astley, one day he is going to die and nobody will know about it for weeks because nobody will want to click the link.
Ade Bozzay
#35. It's not often that an English drummer gets an Oscar. So I'm very, very proud of that.
Phil Collins
#37. Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
Ralph Caplan
#38. Those who fled will fight another time.
Tertullian
#39. The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney
