Conan O'Brien Quotes

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

'Tis folly to be wise.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

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.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

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

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

A hair divides what is false and true.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

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

Common sense is not so common.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.