Quotes About Wisdom

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. – Aristotle

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. – Albert Einstein

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. – Naguib Mahfouz

No man was ever wise by chance. – Seneca Quote

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. – Marilyn Vos Savant

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. – Aristotle

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. – Mark Twain

To touch a child’s face, a dog’s smooth coat, a petaled flower, the rough surface of a rock is to set up new orders of brain motion. To touch is to communicate. – James W. Angell

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. – Stanley Garn

It is a damned poor mind indeed that can’t think of at least two ways of spelling any word. – Andrew Jackson

Common sense is not so common. – Voltaire Quote

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow. – James Stephens

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde. – Dolly Parton Quote

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. – Emerson M. Pugh Quote

What we do not understand we do not possess. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

Forgot to pay his brain bill. – Unknown Quote

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. – Sigmund Freud Quote

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. – Jules Renard

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. – Edward de Bono Quote

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. – George Scialabra Quote

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold H. Glasgow

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. – Mark Twain Quote

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
– Alexander Pope Quote

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve. – Unknown Quote

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. – Dr. Seuss Quote

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. – Don Herold Quote

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books, alone. – Horace

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln Quote

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Anonymous

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers

If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain. – Winston Churchill Quote

Teflon brain – nothing sticks.
– Lily Tomlin

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. – Jonathan Swift

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel Quote

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. – Unknown Quote

Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. – Elbert Hubbard

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. – Barbara Walters

Experience is food for the brain. – Bill Waterson

The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. – Joel Hildebrand Quote

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. – Albert Einstein Quote

Primitive does not mean stupid. – Unknown Quote

How did the scarecrow know he didn’t have a brain? – Unknown Quote

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. – Lao Tse

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein Quote

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain. – Unknown

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. – Charles F. Kettering

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. – Maya Angelou Quote

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. – Montaigne

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. – Henri Arnold

I think the world is run by C students. – Al McGuire Quote

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. – Mark Amidon

Character is higher than intellect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey

A man’s brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a woman’s brain does. – Barbara D. Angelis

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. Aldous Huxley