#cunning

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#cunning #even #exile #ideas #keep

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#confident #cunning #directors #extra #feel

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. ↗

— Ovid

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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

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#capable #cunning #doing #few #generous