Cunning Quotes - Page 11

• This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is of the mind. Our education is for the mind. Our ambitions, our desires, can only be fulfilled by the mind. You can become president of a country, prime minister, not by being meditative but by cultivating a very cunning mind. The whole education is geared by your parents, by your society, so that you can fulfill your desires, your ambitions. You want to become somebody. Meditation can only make you a nobody.

  Rajneesh

  Country, Ambition, Men

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• And many kinds of creatures must have died,
  Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
  For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
  Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
  By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
  And many have been entrusted to our care,
  Commended by their usefulness to us.
  For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
  Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

  Lucretius

  Life, Death, Science

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• The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Strong, Pride, Men

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Hateful, Despise

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• The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Violence, Foxes

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Perseverance, Execution, Determined

  Carl von Clausewitz (1987). “Roots of Strategy: 3 Military Classics”, p.373, Stackpole Books

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• In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

  Daniel Guerin

  Hands, People, Anarchy

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.

  Motsi Mabuse

  Love, Strong, Humble

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Substance, Liquor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.160, The Floating Press

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• When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by the many, the poor will not be mocked by the wealthy, the humble will not be disdained by the honoured, and the simple will not be deceived by the cunning.

  Motsi Mabuse

  Love, Strong, Humble

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• Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hope, Science, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

  Robert Ardrey

  Stars, Science, Men

  "African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man". Book by Robert Ardrey, 1961.

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• Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul. The world presses in upon me with all sorts of pressures, pleas, and pretences. My own corruption is violent, tumultuous, enticing, and entangling. As it conceives sin, it wars within me and against me. Occasions and opportunities for temptation are innumerable. No wonder I do not know how deeply involved I have been with sin. Therefore, on God alone will I rely for my keeping. I will continually look to Him.

  John Owen

  Powerful, War, Heart

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• Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor defects so they'd start to bother me and allow me to snuff the dream till it tapered off and lost its luster and, with its luster gone, remind me once again, as ever again, that happiness is the one thing that in our lives others cannot bring.

  André Aciman

  Breakup, Dream, Party

  André Aciman (2010). “Eight White Nights: A Novel”, p.5, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease the most healthy escaped; from enemies, the strongest, swiftest, or the most cunning; from famine, the best hunters or those with the best digestion; and so on. Then it suddenly flashed upon me that this self-acting process would necessarily improve the race, because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the superior would remain-that is, the fittest would survive.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Science, Race, Self

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

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Lasts, Faults

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151

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• But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

  William Joyce

  Men, Evil, Weakness

  William Joyce (2012). “The Guardians: Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King; E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core!; Toothiana, Queen of the Tooth Fairy Armies”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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

  John Philpot Curran

  Art, Firsts, Invention

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• It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

  Sándor Márai

  Strong, Character, Fate

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• It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

  Erin Hunter

  Leader, Clans, Made

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• But Death was cunning.

  J. K. Rowling

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• Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.

  Patricia Hampl

  Writing, Mirrors, Hands

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• Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Leader, Political

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.3, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Eye, Enemy, Mobility

  Guy de Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge (2001). “Pierre Et Jean”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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