47 Quotes About Acumen

The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.

From somewhere off in the distance, a loon called into the ascending night. And drifting across the lake’s sleepy surface, it’s call lent both a stirring mystery and a gentle magic to the lake and the now drowsy forest that surrounded it. And I remember thinking that no song I have ever heard in the entirety of my life ever conveyed so much with so little.

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.

Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I ‘see’ is but a single thread and solitary shard of what ‘is’, for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.

Scarcity of common sense makes it a philosophy.

What soul is to to the body, common sense is to the mind.

Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

Thankfulness always sees everything as a gift even though it might be wrapped in some rather unsavory wrapping paper, for the wrapping need not dictate the contents.