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Category: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Education

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

George Burns

Quotations about: Authority, Government

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

Ambrose Bierce

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

6. "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"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

E. B. White

Quotations about: Justice

8. "Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Science and Technology

9. "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

Khalil Gibran, "Between Reality and Fantasy"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

10. "Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter."

Stephen Carter, "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby"

Quotations about: Various

11. "A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

Welsh proverb

12. "We may give wise advice, but we cannot give wisdom to follow it."

Anon.

13. "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

Eleanor Roosevelt

14. "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

15. "Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."

P.J. O`Rourke, "Give War A Chance"

16. "A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

Joseph Roux

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

17. "The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

18. "Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."

Franz Grillparzer, "Notebooks and Diaries"

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

19. "Experience is the teacher of all things."

Julius Caesar

Quotations about: Education

20. "There is no such thing as the old age of the wise."

Sophocles

Quotations about: Youth and Age

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21. "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs."

German proverb

Quotations about: History and Nations

22. "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

23. "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

Alfred North Whitehead

Quotations about: Various

24. "Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

25. "Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

William James, "Principles of Psychology"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

26. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: Education

27. "Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Science and Culture"

28. "From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture."

William Somerset Maugham, "Cakes and Ale"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

29. "Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Quotations about: Various

30. "Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Science and Technology

31. "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."

Aldous Huxley, "Jesting Pilate"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

32. "When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination -:- Question and Problem

33. "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Various

34. "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."

Charles Wadsworth

Quotations about: Youth and Age

35. "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."

Jeff Valdez

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

36. "Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."

Cullen Hightower

37. "Life is so constructed that we move through different phases and stages, each requiring the skills and wisdom of the previous ones."

Anne Wilson Schaef

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Education

38. "Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."

Frank Dane

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

39. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."

Andrew Carnegie

40. "Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

Henry David Thoreau

41. "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

42. "Wisdom does not trust to probabilities; it always marches in the midday light of reason."

Baltasar Gracian

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

43. "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: God and Religion

44. "The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."

Louise Hay

Quotations about: Life and Death

45. "As many heads as many wits."

Scottish proverb

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

46. "A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent."

Danish proverb

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

47. "Think much, speak little, write less."

French proverb

48. "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge."

Charles Spurgeon

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

49. "Proverb - a definition ... The wisdom of many and the wit of one."

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Quotations about: Various -:- Wit and Humor

50. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

Socrates

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