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Category: Wisdom and Stupidity

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1. "Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"

2. "He who can find new wisdom in old knowledge will be a good teacher."

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Other categories: Education

3. "We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."

Paul Gauguin, "Intimate Journals"

4. "Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

5. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Question and Problem

6. "Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear."

Ihab Hassan, "The Right Promethean Fire"

Other categories: Various

7. "Education: How come we have smart bombs and dumb kids?"

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Other categories: Education

8. "Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision."

Helen Keller

Other categories: Various

9. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Happiness -:- Memory

10. "The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Other categories: Various

11. "To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."

Gustave Flaubert, letter to Louise Colet; August 6, 1846

Other categories: Happiness

12. "Psychology - the art of turning stupidity into illness."

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Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Science and Technology

13. "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Anita Brookner

Other categories: Justice -:- Life and Death

14. "To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Egoism -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

15. "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Josh Billings

16. "Books, the children of the brain."

Jonathan Swift, "A Tale Of A Tub"

Other categories: Education

17. "The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."

Rudyard Kipling, "Plain Tales from the Hills"

Other categories: Woman and Man

18. "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

Henri Poincare

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

19. "Stupidity is generally it's own punishment."

Robert A. Heinlein

20. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

Herman Melville, "The Problem of Socrates"

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21. "It is a trait of fools to perceive the faults of others but not their own."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

22. "I'll trade wisdom for youth any day."

Brad Pitt, Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Other categories: Youth and Age

23. "Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

24. "Humankind is at the crossroads. One path leads to utter despair and hopelessness. The other path to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Woody Allen

Other categories: Human

25. "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Henry Louis Mencken

Other categories: Egoism

26. "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two."

John Cheever, "John Cheever: The Journals"

Other categories: Good and Evil -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

27. "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Youth and Age

28. "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Power and Weakness

29. "If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

30. "Money doesn't like fools but fools love money."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Richness and Money

31. "Nothing costs you more dearly than your own foolishness."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

32. "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

Orison Swett Marden

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

33. "The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

German proverb

Other categories: Oration and Silence

34. "A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."

Maxim Gorky

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Good and Evil

35. "Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Other categories: Life and Death

36. "He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Other categories: Justice

37. "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

38. "Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it."

William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

39. "There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."

Francis Bacon

Other categories: Happiness

40. "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Other categories: Oration and Silence -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

41. "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

Woodrow T. Wilson

Other categories: Youth and Age

42. "You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."

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Other categories: Education

43. "Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."

Samuel Lover

Other categories: Power and Weakness

44. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Education

45. "Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

George Burns

Other categories: Authority, Government

46. "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

Ambrose Bierce

Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance

47. "Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

48. "Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."

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Other categories: Oration and Silence

49. "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "A Writer's Diary"

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

50. "People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."

E. B. White

Other categories: Justice

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