Quotes About Sagacity

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

Keeping the future open by refraining from making irrevocable decisions that one could eventually regret, requires vigilance, reflection, and sagacity at all times. Politics, as the art of preserving the possibility of choices and debate on those choices, is therefore at the heart of technological dynamics.

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 of science.

in Italia, dove si raggiungono capolavori di sagacia per eludere le leggi che impongono il più piccolo sacrificio o costrizione, stiamo pur certi che le norme attinenti al riposo e simili verranno rispettate senza eccezione con scrupolo prussiano.

Mut ohne Klugheit ist Unfug, und Klugheit ohne Mut ist Quatsch!

The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, powers necessary and proper to carry into effect all the delegated powers wherever vested.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

Be prudent like Nestor and cunning like Odysseus.

To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity; the maxillary muscles enormously developed

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Above all, the Gy-ei have a readier and more concentred power over that mysterious fluid or agency which contains the element of destruction, with a larger portion of that sagacity which comprehends dissimulation. Thus they cannot only defend themselves against all aggressions from the males, but could, at any moment when he least expected his danger, terminate the existence of an offending spouse.

Dare to be wise.

Un prince qui n'est pas sage par lui-même ne peut être bien conseillé

The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.