Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

... common sense is very rare.

Common sense is often underrated.

Intellect is not wisdom.

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.

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.

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

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.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

... always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes ... absolutely out of his senses.

We've lost common sense.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

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

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

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

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.