Subject: Intelligence » Wisdom

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
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Some coaches pray for wisdom; I pray for 260-pound tackles… they’ll give me plenty of wisdom.

(1932 – ) American football coach
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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author
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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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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
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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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Silence: True wisdom’s best reply.

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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
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Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
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Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

(1973 – ) American comedian
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It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer
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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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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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Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
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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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Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

A loaded wagon makes no noise.

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