Jon Kyl Quotes

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.

An open mind but not an empty head.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

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.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

No one but a fool is always right.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

... common sense is very rare.

Neither truth, reason, nor justice consists in stubbornness of assertion, nor in the repetition of error.

I want to listen with an open mind, but I don't want to listen with an empty mind.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

I try to be very smart and use wisdom about everything.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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