Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Henri Poincare

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Stupidity is generally it's own punishment."

Robert A. Heinlein

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Herman Melville "The Problem of Socrates"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Defeates and Mistakes

Truth and Falsity

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Brad Pitt Los Angeles Times; December 26, 2008

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Human

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Henry Louis Mencken

Egoism

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

John Cheever "John Cheever: The Journals"

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Benjamin Franklin

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Albert Einstein

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Richness and Money

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Defeates and Mistakes

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Orison Swett Marden

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

German Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Maxim Gorky

Good and Evil

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Henry David Thoreau "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Life and Death

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Voltaire

Justice

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

William Shakespeare "Henry IV"

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Happiness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge, Ignorance

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Woodrow T. Wilson

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Samuel Lover

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Celine-Louis-Ferdinand

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Burns

Authority, Government

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

E. B. White

Justice

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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

Art and Culture

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Truth and Falsity

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Various

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Welsh Proverbs

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Bertrand Russell

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Seriousness is stupidity sent to college."

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

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Wisdom and Stupidity

Wit and Humor

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Franz Grillparzer "Notebooks and Diaries"

Talent and Genius

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

Julius Caesar

Education

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Sophocles

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

German Proverbs

History and Nations

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Manners and Ethics

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)