Barbara Tuchman Quotes

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

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

It's always better to be wise than to be smart.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

... common sense is very rare.

Common sense is often underrated.

We all have a limited amount of good judgment.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

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.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

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

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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

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

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

I try to be very smart and use wisdom about everything.

We've lost common sense.