A Quote by Carl Sandburg

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Carl Sandburg

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Cunning Greatest None

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Carl Sandburg
American - Poet
January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Richard Steele

Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.

Baltasar Gracian

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Josh Billings

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

S.M. Stirling

Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.

Cub Koda

I am natures greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me. I am a unique creature.

Og Mandino

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Benjamin Franklin

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Lord Chesterfield

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

Jean de la Bruyere

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.