Baltasar Gracian Quotes

There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

No problem is too big to run away from.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

A defection is better than a surrender, a surrender is better than a capture, and a capture is better than a kill.

Some people run away from things.

Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

The world is full of smart, poor people.

Smart work pays best. Trust it.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.