Peter Woo Quotes

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.

I think I have good judgment.

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

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

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

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.

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.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

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

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

... common sense is very rare.

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.

Common sense is often underrated.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

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.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.