Quotes About Sagacity

I was always mature for my age.

I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound, who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry of the ablest dog in the pack, without being ever mistaken.

Diplomacy without sagacity and manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

Diplomacy without sagacity and prudent manoeuvring is like music without instruments.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Winning squads emphasize fundamentals-pick and rolls,teamwork,and defense. They play with passion and they play hard. They move the ball, and when their players don't have it, they move well without the ball. They play with sagacity by exploiting mismatches. They gauge their opponents weaknesses and then attack them relentlessly.

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Some day she will know how wise old men are.

The Sage accords with it and models himself on Heaven and Earth. Thus when the realm is well ordered, his benevolence and sagacity are hidden. When All under Heaven are in turbulence, his benevolence and sagacity flourish. This is the true Tao.

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.

I don't need a hero. I was blessed with a large amount of common sense, which is of infinitely more use than a man.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

Never lose your sense of common sense.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

Everyone honors the wise.

The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.