Jeanine Pirro Quotes

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

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

The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

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

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

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

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.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.