Sagacity Quotes
31 quotes by 24 authors
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It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.
— Marianne Moore
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Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success,…
— Albert Goodwill Spalding
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Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if…
— Leo Rosten
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
— James Thurber
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So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, "When you…
— Mark Twain
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Sagacity Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 31 Sagacity Quotes as follows: