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Definition of Tact |
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Tact
The sense of touch; feeling. The stroke in beating time. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances. Related Definitions: And, Appreciating, Beating, By, Discernment, Doing, Faculty, Feeling, In, Is, Mental, Nice, Of, Or, Peculiar, Perception, Power, Ready, Required, Sense, Sensitive, Skill, Stroke, The, Time, Touch, What |
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Tact Quotations
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny. Dane Cook Without tact you can learn nothing. Benjamin Disraeli A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. Charles Horton Cooley Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton It is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing. Samuel Butler Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations. Theodor Adorno |
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Tact Translations
tact in Dutch is ritme, tact, maat, beleid tact in Finnish is tahti tact in French is cadence, tact, mesure tact in German is Takt tact in Hungarian is tapintat tact in Italian is tatto tact in Spanish is tacto tact in Swedish is taktfullhet, takt |
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