Ken Jennings Quotes

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

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

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.

Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.

The most difficult quality is to make the right decision. Because you can be quick, you can be strong, you can jump incredibly, you can have the best shots and you can be able to score goals from 50 yards, but if you don't know when to shoot, when to run or when to jump, you're lost.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

You never ask the public individual to decide. You can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to decide.

A right decision at the wrong time is a wrong decision.

A long resume does not equate to good judgment.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

In many important contexts, especially those that are complex, new, or unfamiliar, you shouldn’t blink… and you really shouldn’t trust your gut.

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.

I'm a research queen.

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

Hillary Clinton's not very bright. Everybody says she's so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump. She doesn't really have a grasp. She doesn't have a grasp on what's important and what's not.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions as possible so that they can have sufficient information to make the right decisions.