Matthew Green Quotes

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

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

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

... common sense is very rare.

Wisdom ofttimes consists of knowing what to do next.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

The wise are above books.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

I have confidence in people's basic common sense.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.