Warren Buffett Quotes

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

There's got to be a point in time where the reality comes home and people realize, here are the facts, and this is either not true or it is true. You've got the facts, you can make your own decision now.

You have to make your decision based on the content.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

If you judge, investigate.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

If you would judge, understand.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Every decision you make in life, not just on the sporting field - a lot of time and energy goes into it. You think things through before you make decisions and you always think the decision you make at the time is going to be the right one.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.