Mark Walport Quotes

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

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

I always try to have an open mind, but there is a difference between having an open mind and having a hole in the head.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Having a judicious temperament is far more important than having a consistent judicial methodology.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

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

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

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

We've lost common sense.

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.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

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.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

You have to have the common sense.