Quotes about Cunning
Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.
- Cormac McCarthy
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
- Thomas Becket
It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?
- Carl Jung
More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
- Napoleon Hill
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.
- Napoleon Hill
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
- Cicero
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
- Winston Churchill
Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.
- Brother Andrew
I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted from a complete and pure devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3
- Beth Moore
For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.
- Billy Graham
Look, the American people are smart.
- John Kennedy
I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.
- Frederick Douglass