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Category: Wisdom and Stupidity

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1. "TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."

Douglas Coupland, "JPod"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

2. "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

Frank Zappa, "The Real Frank Zappa Book"

3. "A wise person has something to say, a fool has to say something."

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Quotations about: Oration and Silence

4. "The silence of a wise man is always meaningful."

Leo Strauss

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

5. "Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother."

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Quotations about: Memory

6. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."

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Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

7. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."

Eugene Ionesco

Quotations about: Question and Problem

8. "Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand."

proverb

Quotations about: Richness and Money

9. "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."

Baltasar Gracian

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

10. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men."

Saadi

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

11. "To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."

Samuel T. Coleridge, "The Collected Works"

Quotations about: Education

12. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James, "Principles of Psychology"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

13. "Proverbs contain within one or two lines the lessons of lifetime."

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14. "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius

15. "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Marcel Proust

16. "A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools."

Thomas Fuller

17. "A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

18. "Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a question and you're a fool for the rest of your life."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Question and Problem

19. "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

William James

20. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

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Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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21. "Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Quotations about: Various

22. "Fools learn nothing from wise men; but wise men learn much from fools."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

23. "How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!"

Logan Pearsall Smith, "Afterthoughts"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

24. "When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"

25. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

Martin Luther King, "Strength to Love"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

26. "Wisdom is more to be envied than riches."

English proverb

Quotations about: Envy -:- Richness and Money

27. "Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body."

English proverb

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

28. "The vintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust and that life is love, laughter, and work."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Life and Death

29. "A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. "

Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"

30. "He knows everything, absolutely everything. Imagine what an idiot he must be."

Miguel de Unamuno

31. "Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold."

Bob Marley

32. "A man may be a fool and not know it - but not if he is married."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Marriage

33. "A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

34. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

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Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

35. "To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous."

Confucius

36. "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

37. "There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully."

François de La Rochefoucauld

38. "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates

39. "When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?"

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

40. "There are more fools in the world than there are people."

Heinrich Heine

41. "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

Elbert Green Hubbard

42. "Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."

Robert A. Heinlein

43. "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."

John Stuart Mill

Quotations about: Time and Passing

44. "A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Idiot"

45. "Patience is the companion of wisdom."

St. Augustine of Hippo

46. "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Education

47. "Stupidity is permanent; ignorance can be fixed."

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Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

48. "There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Lectures and Biographical Sketches"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

49. "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

50. "The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former."

Jonathan Swift

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