Christina Ricci Quotes

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

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

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

You have to go by your instincts in casting.

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've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

Send a wise man and don't advise him. He should know what to do.

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

Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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.

I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.

If every player is on the left, and I am on the right, you need to trust me that I have seen something the other players have not seen.