Jim Finks Quotes

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

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

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

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

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

... common sense is very rare.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

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 thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I know I have pretty good instincts.

I think I'm a good judge of character.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

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

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.