John Sununu Quotes

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

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

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

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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

Focusing on the right question is very different from having the right answers.

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

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

There's got to be a point in time where the reality comes home and people realize, here are the facts, and this is either not true or it is true. You've got the facts, you can make your own decision now.

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

If you judge, investigate.

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.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

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

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

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 think I have good judgment.

If you would judge, understand.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.