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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


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  1. Chiropractor North Narrabeen says

    June 28, 2012 at 10:33 am

    Amazing list. These are all words from people past and present, who have not only shared the best of their brains through their words but have also used it to full potential in their pursuit of practical applications that have simplified everyday life.

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