Quotes About Sagacity

it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a reader unerringly to discriminate in a novel between the inconsistencies of conception and those of life. As elsewhere, experience is the only guide here; but as no one man's experience can be coextensive with what is, it may be unwise in every case to rest upon it.

I'm not a doctor. I just have a tremendous amount of common sense.

If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

I believe in smart people.

He's no idiot, in fact he's a genius... and that's as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.

Fueron exactamente diecinueve arañazos y doce dentelladas. ¿Que cómo lo sé? Feliz pregunta, lector sagaz, al filo de abandonarte de nuevo en los tiempos modernos, después de este paréntesis retrospectivo. Lo sé porque fui yo. Yo fui quien la atacó. Dicho esto, regreso a mi aparente silencio. Te estaré observando.

To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath.

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

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 bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Common sense is very uncommon.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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 wounds one receives.

He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.

Men of his strength of purpose, and customary sagacity, if they chance to adopt a mistaken opinion in practical matters, so wedge it and fasten it among things known to be true, that to wrench it out of their minds is hardly less difficult than pulling up an oak.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.