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Category: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Education

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

3. "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

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

5. "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

6. "The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he."

Karl Kraus

7. "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

Khalil Gibran

Quotations about: Various

8. "Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

9. "There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work."

Joseph Joubert

10. "Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

11. "Knowledge is knowing something. Wisdom is knowing what to do with that knowledge."

Anon.

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

12. "To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

13. "The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Chronicles of Narnia"

14. "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Question and Problem

15. "Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

16. "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

Immanuel Kant

Quotations about: Science and Technology

17. "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

18. "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

19. "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

Gustave Flaubert

Quotations about: Happiness

20. "It is better to stay silent and let people think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

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21. "To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Father Brown Mystery Series"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

22. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

23. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

24. "Stupidity is much the same all the world over."

John Stuart Mill

25. "More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."

George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Quotations about: Human

26. "Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."

Bertrand Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy"

Quotations about: Education -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

27. "A book is a mirror: If an ape peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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