Elizabeth I Quotes

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

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

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

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

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

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

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.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Don't take too much advice.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Smarter is always the answer.