Perspicacity Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

• 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,… — Walter Savage Landor
• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But… — Christiaan Huygens
• Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth of Nations is… — George Akerlof
• There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity. — Edwin Land
• God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that… — Rumi
• It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in… — Susanna Clarke
• Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd… — William Styron
• I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. — Andre Gide

Who Wrote These Perspicacity Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 9 Perspicacity Quotes as follows:

• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Walter Savage Landor
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Christiaan Huygens
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by George Akerlof
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Edwin Land
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Rumi
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Susanna Clarke
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by William Styron
• 1 Perspicacity Quote by Andre Gide