Joseph Addison Quotes

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Common sense is very uncommon.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

... common sense is very rare.

Common sense is often underrated.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

I say this often, THINK. There is something in life called common sense. Webster's says common sense is sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. Perhaps this is why in 1776, Thomas Paine used these words as a title for the most famous pamphlet ever written.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.

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

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.