Quotes About Acumen

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

Besides being notoriously literate, the princess was noted for her political acumen and great beauty.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

To speak French does not mean wits.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

After wisdom comes wit.

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

I always consult my father before I take on a project. Not just me - even my brother goes to Dad and speaks to him of his business ideas. Dad has an amazing business acumen, and it would be foolish not to take his advice. Plus, he's our dad at the end of the day, and he would want to see us succeed. He always gives us the best advice.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

I have the natural ability to pick things up a lot faster than I think most people would.

If you're going to be an expert in something, then you need to be an expert in all aspects of it. From what makes it work to what makes it desirable to what makes it flawed.

Experience alone does not create knowledge

There is all the difference in the world between knowing about and knowing how to do.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.

She knows wot's wot, she does.

In referring to the Führer's military acumen, he referred to him as a "dilettante" and quipped that Germany's defeat on the eastern front was due to too many Russians and one German too many.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.

Intelligence is the art of good guesswork.