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Subject:
Intelligence
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Wisdom
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
Eden Phillpotts
(1862 – 1960) English writer
Intelligence
People
Wisdom
Advice
Smart as a tree full of owls.
Country expression
Animals
Expressions
Intelligence
Wisdom
Owls
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
(1826 – 1877) English economist & journalist
Books
Communication
Reading/Writing
Wisdom
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort
(1741 – 1794) French writer
Fools
Intelligence
Wisdom
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Intelligence
Situations
Wisdom
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
Fools
Intelligence
Time
Wisdom
Silence: True wisdom’s best reply.
Anonymous
Definitions
Wisdom
Silence
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
(1897 – 1982) French writer
Fools
Intelligence
Time
Wisdom
Educated Man: One who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answers.
Anonymous
Definitions
Intelligence
Wisdom
Educated Man
Philosophy: Common sense in a dress suit.
Anonymous
Definitions
Intelligence
Wisdom
Philosophy
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
Trischmann's Paradox (Axiom of the Pipe)
Fools
Murphy’s Laws
Wisdom
Pipes
We grow too soon old and too late smart.
Dutch proverb
Age
Old
Proverbs
Wisdom
Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Josh Billings
(1818 – 1885) humorist
Age
Old
Wisdom
Stubborness
Some coaches pray for wisdom; I pray for 260-pound tackles… they’ll give me plenty of wisdom.
Chuck Noll
(1932 – ) American football coach
Football
Intelligence
Sports
Wisdom
Coaches
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