John Milton Quotes

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.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

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

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

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

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

I know all the critics.

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

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

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

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

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

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

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

I'd like to be very wise.