What's the difference between sagacious and sapient?

Sagacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
  • (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (2) Election officials have also disqualified Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the man who until just a few weeks ago was the country's prime minister, under articles ensuring candidates are, among many other things, "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate".
  • (3) He is a kindly and sagacious presence on our television screens and, in this febrile pre-referendum climate, has attained mystical powers for Scottish nationalists.
  • (4) As the more sagacious judges tell us, managers are rarely as good as they are cracked up to be when they are winning, and not as bad in adversity.
  • (5) The nurse's sagacious management of neurologic, hemodynamic and pulmonary status and the ongoing support of the patient and family throughout the angioplasty procedure is crucial to a positive outcome.
  • (6) The tour was organised by the normally ­sagacious Dr Ali Bacher, who had been South Africa's last ­captain before the country was banished from Test cricket at the start of the 1970s.
  • (7) The captain who guided it through the rapids was the sagacious Lord Bragg, who would rather be remembered as the novelist Melvyn Bragg .
  • (8) And, now, perhaps seeing the peak of the native advertising bubble, and with the help of the ever-clueless New York Times , it is, sagaciously, ready to get out with whatever it can.
  • (9) Credit must also go to the sagacious Pékerman whose faith in the young star has allowed Rodríguez to truly blossom.
  • (10) Because he feels at home in the 12th century, an era of sagacious kings and sustainable cabbages.

Sapient


Definition:

  • (a.) Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I'm a huge supporter of Bradley Manning ... but what Snowden did is even more important as we are all directly involved," Westwood said, speaking at a Cannes session as a guest of agency Sapient Nitro to promote her brand of storytelling and campaigning.
  • (2) Meanwhile March’s Chappie is District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s return to the streets of metropolitan South Africa in the company of a Short Circuit-style sapient robot and Die Antwoord members Yolandi and Ninja.
  • (3) But in this instance the advances alone in the rendering of realistic sapient apes and resulting fascination with these sci-fi versions of our closest relations made the experience unmissable.
  • (4) "But they were sapient people as well – that is probably the implication of the last decade of results."