A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Samuel Johnson

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Cunning Day Open Twilight Wisdom

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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

Benjamin Franklin

The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

Taylor Lautner

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

Anna Brownell Jameson

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

William Rounseville Alger

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

Plato

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

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Seneca the Younger

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

Charles Dickens

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

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

Plato

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

Coventry Patmore

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

Joseph Addison

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.