Sagacity Quotes

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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.

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