Herman Melville Quotes

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

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.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

... common sense is very rare.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

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

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

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

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

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

If you would judge, understand.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.