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• s  acutely insightful and wise
  much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument
• s  mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument

• The most perspicacious planner is daunted by the task of readying the nation for the Olympic Games.
• Henry, the perspicacious keeper of operations, has been able to shave costs and keep the company afloat.
• Lucy is perspicacious and persevering and has marshaled all her faculties to crack the mystery of the disappearing diamonds.

• sagacious
• sapient
• clear-eyed
• clear-sighted

News & Articles

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• Viewpoints: Did Prop. 13 help produce the pension mess?
  Twenty years ago, the ever-perspicacious Joel Fox, who then headed the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, often complained that liberals were trying to blame everything that went wrong in California, from power failures to kidnapping, on Proposition 13. He even wrote a book spelling it all out.
  July 12, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee