Joseph Cannon Quotes

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Common sense is often underrated.

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

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

... common sense is very rare.

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

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

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

We've lost common sense.

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

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.

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

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.

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.

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

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

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

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

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

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

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

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