Definition of Sagacity

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Definition of Sagacity
	Sagacity The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Related Definitions: Acuteness, Being, Discernment, Judgment, Keenness, Of, Or, Penetration, Quality, Quickness, Sagacious, Sense, Soundness, The, With

Sagacity Quotations

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
James Thurber

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.
Leo Rosten

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

Sagacity Translations

sagacity in German is Scharfsinn
sagacity in Swedish is klokhet, skarpsinne

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