Top 1200 Cunning Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

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

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

They're the smartest, most cunning, slick, coolest group of people on the planet. Generation Z, I love y'all.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

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

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.

I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.

It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.

What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

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

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.