Subject: Intelligence » Wisdom

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Smart as a tree full of owls.

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

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

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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)

We grow too soon old and too late smart.

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

Philosophy: Common sense in a dress suit.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

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

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

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Wisdom: Knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

(450 BC – 388 BC) Greek Athenian comic playwright

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

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

(1817 – 1862) American author, poet, philosopher,, naturalist & historian

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

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

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

(1826 – 1877) English economist & journalist

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

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

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist