Quotes About Perspicacity

#1. But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#2. It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

Susanna Clarke

#3. Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

Flannery O'Connor

#4. The general market wants what I do.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. Don't get so focused on where you're going that you forget the people you're travelling with. There's no point reaching a destination if you arrive alone.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#6. Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.

Christine Gregoire

#7. Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

Ron Brackin

#8. Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

Edith Wharton

#9. I will have you know that I have the brightest mind and the keenest wit. Why, people are often astounded by the perspicacity of my discourse and the subtlety of my insight!" He

Sherry Thomas

#10. To be less dumb, remember your propensity for post hoc postulation and the power positive permutations of the placebo effect have to pollute your perspicacity.

David McRaney

#11. Great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune.

Christiaan Huygens

#12. Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Walter Savage Landor

#13. I'd hate to be putting a bullet in a lawman, so I'd appreciate ye lowerin' yer weapon, sir.

Karen Witemeyer

#14. A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Susan Sontag

#15. Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Chris Christie

#16. I'll never forgive myself for putting you in danger, allowing you to get hurt.

Faith Sullivan

#17. Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#18. I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.

Lindsey Stirling

#19. As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Ngaio Marsh

#20. Love becomes imprudent only when it is impatient to enjoy; but when it is a matter of procuring the return of a happiness to which a baleful combination of circumstances has raised impediments, love sees and foresees all that the most subtle perspicacity can discover.

Giacomo Casanova

#21. Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Ilyas Kassam

#22. After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

Chita Rivera

#23. Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Rick Warren

#24. I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Andre Gide

#25. If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

Marianne Williamson

#26. He said, 'Charlie, how would you treat people if you knew you didn't have to fix them? If you knew that was God's job, and all He was asking of you was show them His love, maybe tell them some things He wanted them to know?

Dan Walsh

#27. That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Terry Pratchett

#28. There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

Edwin Land