Shrewd Quotes

“When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Two people don't see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem; other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit”
― Ashish Patel

“Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!”
― Ashish Patel

“Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you feed a bird, you don't have to force it to come to you.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.”
― E.B. White The Trumpet of the Swan

“The smartest fish are still in the sea.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“My answers are typically ‘guesses’ cleverly disguised as answers.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We could never agree about Boogie and I didn't share Miriam's reverence for professors. In fact, just in case I haven't mentioned it before, the pride of my office wall is my framed high-school graduation certificate, lit from above. Miriam has reproached me for it. "Take it down, darling," she once pleaded. But it still hangs there.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Girls born into a patriarchal society become either shrewd or sick. It’s one or the other.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“An intelligent mind who trust nothing but the intelligence will eventually face problems which intelligence won't solve.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Intelligence is an insufficient commodity, but imagination is an infinite commodity.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.”
― Cardinal Wiseman

“Always have something shrewd to say and valuable to put on the table.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The mistake was to think that the hawks were flying under their own power, when in fact they were catching the updrafts created by nature’s power. Therefore, to truly rise is not a product of our own brute force wherein we create the power. Rather, it is a seasoned wisdom that knows where to find the power.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Are happiness and virtue synonymous with living as truthfully and honorably as possible or do these concepts allow for certain mental deceptions? Is a gullible person or a shrewd person more likely to be happy? Is a foolish or wise person more likely to live guiltlessly? What is more essential to living a contented life, accumulation of knowledge or the ability to feel and effusively express compassion for other people? Can we maintain happiness by acting as harsh judges of ourselves while acting as kindhearted judges of other people? Does happiness entail releasing an underground river of long suppressed passion or does it require living an aboveboard life of disciple-like moderation? Should I strive to modulate my desires by laboring diligently to maintain a disciplined mental and spiritual homeostasis? Alternatively, should I take calculated risks and passionately immerse myself in all facets of a tumultuous life?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Don’t lie to yourself, despite how good you’ve become at it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Iconography aside, it is easy to see what someone is trying to communicate when he pairs a lady with a snake. Alexander the Great's mother - as murderous and maniacal a Macedonian princess who ever lived - kept serpents as pets. She used them to terrify men. Before her came Eve, Medusa, Electra, and the Erinyes; when a woman teams up with a snake, a moral storm threatens somewhere.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life