Sagacity Quotes

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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. — Sun Tzu
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
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future. — Frank William Taussig
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
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
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. — Thorstein Veblen
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.
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
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
[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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