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Tag Name "Sagacious" (9)

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What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.
Claud Cockburn
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When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle when you talk to the ignorant, brag when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
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Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
William Shenstone
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To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
Edmund Burke
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
John Ruskin
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
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We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
Thomas B. Macaulay