Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies. - Polly Toynbee
Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence - Rasheed Ogunlaru
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. - George Santayana
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow. - Tite Kubo
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. - Oscar Levant
Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback. - Gordana Biernat
Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great. - Debasish Mridha
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. - A.E. Housman
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise. - Debasish Mridha
Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again! - Hamidreza Bagheri
Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing - Munia Khan
Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them. - Willa Cather