A Quote by William Rounseville Alger
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
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.
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.
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