Definition of Tact

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Definition of Tact

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.

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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

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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