Quotes about Acumen

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious. The great deeds of philosophers have been less the fruit of their intellect than of the direction of that intellect by an eminently religious tone of mind. Truth has yielded herself rather to their patience, their love, their single-heartedness and their self-denial, than to their logical acumen.

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.