Wise Decision Making Quotes

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction.

Common sense is very uncommon.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.

It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it - who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet - that they can occasionally find one. And the wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time they don't. It's just that simple.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

trust your heart but use your head

An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

A chief does not hurry.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

A wise man can be a fool in love.

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.

The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.