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.
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
... common sense is very rare.
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving the masses a clear sense of direction and hope, but instead exercising good judgment on a case-by-case basis while thinking many steps ahead of the present moment.
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
I'm simply saying that heroes are people whose activities, whose attitudes, and whose judgment you just think, 'Wow. That's good. That's right. That's real.'
My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
That's the difference between a great comic and a bad comic - one has great instincts and has a lot of compassion and can feel what's right and what's wrong.
More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
Viscount Morley of Blackburn
I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
What is best and most necessary usually happens.
There's never nothing wrong with taking the right advice.
Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.
