Anacharsis Quotes

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

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

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

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

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

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

Common sense is not so common.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

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

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

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

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

People are not stupid.

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