Guy Martin Quotes

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

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

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

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

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.