Sensible Decision-Making Quotes

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

Don't be stupid. It's not smart.

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Fear is good and useful when it's deployed on the side of common sense.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.