Noun
The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. Abigail Adams
Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span. Bram van Velde
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. Camille Paglia
The meeting of man and God must always mean a penetration and entry of the divine into the human and a self-immergence of man in the Divinity. Sri Aurobindo
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. Niccolò Machiavelli