Subject: Intelligence » Wisdom (Page 3)

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

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

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

(1842 – 1910) American philosopher & psychologist

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

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

Some coaches pray for wisdom; I pray for 260-pound tackles… they’ll give me plenty of wisdom.

(1932 – ) American football coach

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

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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)

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

(1862 – 1960) English writer

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