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Tact

«Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.»
Author: Isaac Newton (Mathematician, Physicist) | About: Tact | Keywords: tact
«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.»
«Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do»
Author: Raymond Mortimer | About: Tact | Keywords: convincing, tact
«Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.»
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett | About: Tact | Keywords: mind reading, tact
«Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents»
Author: William Gilmore Simms | About: Tact | Keywords: supplies, tact
«Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say»
Author: Henry Van Dyke (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | About: Tact, Thinking | Keywords: tact, unthought
«Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Tact | Keywords: describe, tact
«Without tact you can learn nothing.»
«Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd»