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Category: Wisdom and Stupidity

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1. "A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Charles Dickens

Quotations about: Love

2. "Dig the well before you are thirsty."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

3. "Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep."

Bob Marley

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

4. "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

Aesop

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

5. "Love is being stupid together."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Quotations about: Love

6. "If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."

Nikki Giovanni, "A Dialogue"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

7. "An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Notebook M, The Crack-Up"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Elizabeth Gaskell, "Wives and Daughters"

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Education

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

Paul Gauguin, "Intimate Journals"

11. "Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Question and Problem

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

Ihab Hassan, "The Right Promethean Fire"

Quotations about: Various

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Education

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

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Various

16. "Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Memory

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotations about: Various

18. "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

Quotations about: Happiness

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Science and Technology

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

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: Justice -:- Life and Death

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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Egoism -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Josh Billings

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

Jonathan Swift, "A Tale Of A Tub"

Quotations about: Education

24. "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"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

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

Henri Poincare

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Herman Melville, "The Problem of Socrates"

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Truth and Falsity

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

Brad Pitt, Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Quotations about: Youth and Age

30. "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"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

31. "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

Quotations about: Human

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Egoism

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

John Cheever, "John Cheever: The Journals"

Quotations about: Good and Evil -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Youth and Age

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

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Richness and Money

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

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

Orison Swett Marden

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

German proverb

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

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

Maxim Gorky

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Good and Evil

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

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

Quotations about: Life and Death

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

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Justice

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"

46. "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

Quotations about: Happiness

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quotations about: Oration and Silence -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Woodrow T. Wilson

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Education

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

Samuel Lover

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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