#cunning

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#cunning #justice #knowledge #ought #rather

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#low #mimic #wisdom

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. ↗

— Plautus

#fault #feet #first #great #trips

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#between #changed #cunningham #fell #howard

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

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

Oh Satan you're a wily one. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#intelligence #satan #intelligence

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#action #cunning #dose #egoism #ends

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? ↗

— Archilochus

#another #better #could #cunning #flight

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#being #clime #cunning #excel #gifted

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning