Quotes about Sharpness

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.