Best Outwitting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Thus far I had outwitted him, and I triumphed over it. Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.”

Weak Slavery African Americans Blacks Cunning Slaves Outwitting Slave Masters

Book:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than delivering strikes and slashes, and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need while making the world a better place. The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning.”

World Way Needs Art Artist Winning Simple Enemy Skills Endure Deeper Strikes Martial Arts Significance Better Place Surviving Delivering Prevailing Ninja Martial Artist Outwitting

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner 'censor'.”

Mean Dream Common Share Humour Jokes Forgotten Arise Unconscious Similarity Outwitting

Book:Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

Source: Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

“Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.”

Doe Sometimes Brain Trouble Absolutes Size Contracts Elephants Negotiation Whales Outwitting

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.”

Way May Children Parent Generations Civilization Survival Better Ways Tribute Outwitting

Author:Lucy Freeman

“They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.”

People Art War Ends Suffering Helpless Widows Orphan Robbing Widows And Orphans Outwitting

Book:Lydia Bailey

Source: Lydia Bailey

“Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.”

Thinking Way Feels Should Writing West South East New Ways Pressured Outwitting Writing And Thinking

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.”

Sometimes Matter Happens Eye Faces Fear Fronts Scared Outwitting

Author:David Wroblewski

“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”

Hard Today Hard Times Existentialism Existential Bent Having A Hard Time Outwitting

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.”

World Way Trying Running Courses Secret Musician Tricks Novelists Schemes Cunning Trickery Baudelaire Guile Olaf Outwitting Craftiness

Author:Daniel Handler

“Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!”

Mind Limitation Outwitting

Book:Become Your Best

Source: Become Your Best

“The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.”

“...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.”

“Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.”

Skills Opponents Boxing Brutes Outwitting

Author:Lennox Lewis

“Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving”

Past Leader Records Mets Difficulty Defeat Temporary Great Leader Arriving Temporary Defeat Outwitting

Author:Napoleon Hill

“You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's the aeroplane you've hit . . . normally it was more of a game if you like, you were outwitting and shooting down another aircraft, you were simply hitting metal.”

Ifs Thinking Games Individual Like You Shooting Aviation Combat Metals Hitting Aeroplanes Aircraft Bail Outwitting

Author:Peter Malam Brothers

“One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.”

Giving Fantasy Giving Up Investors Gunslinger Outwitting

Book:A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

Source: A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market

“...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.”