Associations to the word «Acumen»

Wiktionary

ACUMEN, noun. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

Dictionary definition

ACUMEN, noun. A tapering point.
ACUMEN, noun. Shrewdness shown by keen insight.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin