Subject: Intelligence » Wisdom (Page 2)

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

(1889 – 1974) American intellectual, writer, reporter & political commentator
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

(1842 – 1910) American philosopher & psychologist
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Wisdom: Knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

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Smart as a tree full of owls.

Animals Expressions Intelligence Wisdom

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

(1973 – ) American comedian
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Educated Man: One who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answers.

Definitions Intelligence Wisdom

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… prepare to die.

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Philosophy: Common sense in a dress suit.

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Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Intelligence Wisdom

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

History Murphy’s Laws People Wisdom

Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.

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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author
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It’s so simple to be wise… just thing of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)
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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Fools Murphy’s Laws Wisdom

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist
Intelligence Wisdom

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
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You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around; but when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
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