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"It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious." »Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself." »Peter da Silva
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"I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame." »William Langland
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"There is nothing worse then a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." »Ansel Adams
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." »Ansel Adams
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"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. -- last words before his beheadding" »Sir Walter Raleigh
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"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood." »Buddha
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"The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind." »Menander
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"Be Like the crayon...... Blunt,sharp,Long or Short...... Always add colours to others lives" »Siddharth Astir
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"If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick." »Bob Dylan
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"Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see." »Bernard Baruch
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"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong
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"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." »William Bradford
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"A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." »Washington Irving
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"Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them." »Cervantes
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"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." »Washington Irving
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"Learning is like Scanderbeg?s sword, either good or bad according to him who hath it: an excellent weapon, if well used; otherwise, like a sharp razor in the hand of a child." »R Chamberlain
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"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report." »Dave Barry
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"Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect." »William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
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"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens." »Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life." »Frederika Bremer
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"These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas." »Brenda Ueland
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"Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level." »Shimon Peres
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"Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves." »Sigmund Freud
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"This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters." »Honore de Balzac
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"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley
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