“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
Jerome Bruner
“We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.”
Dan Quayle
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.”
John Dewey
“It began to turn against him, because his opponents were very, very shrewd and calculating in the way they exploited it.”
Laurence Leamer
“I think his selection is a very shrewd one because he has matured as a cricketer this season,”
Nick Knight
“He sought the neighborhoods out rather than waiting for them. He was very shrewd.”
John Moran
