Quotes About Sagacity

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

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 upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

After wisdom comes wit.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Discretion is the better part of valor

The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.

Vedi Jim, tu sei una persona intelligente. Molto intelligente. Lo sei sempre stato ma purtroppo ti accontenti di essere solo una persona furba.

Common sense is often underrated.

You must be wise and act with wisdom

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage — leave sagacity to the autumn!

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

In many things I defer more to the authority of my grandfather whose political sagacity appears to have been the most striking characteristic of his life. He saw no cessation of war, still less much perfectibility while man is constituted as he has been known to be since the world began. And I think with him.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

Good intentions are useless in the absence of common sense. —JAMI, BAHARISTAN