Sagacity Quotes
31 quotes by 24 authors
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
— Sun Tzu
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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.
— George Santayana
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at…
— Thomas Huxley
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must…
— Denis Diderot
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Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
— Samuel Johnson
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity…
— Sun Tzu
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each…
— Joseph Addison
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to…
— Walter Bagehot
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The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
— Frank William Taussig
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the…
— Cheikh Anta Diop
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
— Thorstein Veblen
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Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause…
— James I. Robertson, Jr.
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The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity…
— Joseph Addison
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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
— H. L. Mencken
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