Kingman Brewster Jr. Quotes

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

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

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

I think I have good judgment.

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

... common sense is very rare.

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.

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.

Common sense is often underrated.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

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.

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

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

People are not stupid.

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

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

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.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.