Top 87 Sharpens Quotes & Sayings

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.

An actual scientist embraces debate because it sharpens their research.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.

What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

I was trained within a black radical tradition that encouraged struggle within our own movements because it sharpens collective analysis - bringing us closer to the tools we need to achieve liberation.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

The thing about having a deadline like a baby is that it sharpens the pencil. It makes sure stuff gets done.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.

Church is the people that we get to do life with. It's the people that have courageous conversations with us. It's the people that love us. It's the people that invest in us. It's the people we get to do life with. And we also get to share with them. It's being able to have those people in our lives who we're able to inspire and they're able to inspire us. When we're down, they pick us up. When they're down, we pick them up. Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.

If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.