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Quotes about Sharpness

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
- Epictetus
If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
- Ecclesiastes 10:10
A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
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.
- Dallas Willard
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- Ernest Hemingway
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
- Ernest Hemingway
The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
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).
- Richard Baxter
If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
- Lao Tzu