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'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully.
'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.'
'And he has Brain.'
'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.'
There was a long silence. 'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'
--The House at Pooh Corner
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.-- Charles Dickens
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. --Mark Twain
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. --Lord Chesterfield
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. --John Churton Collins
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. --Bill Cosby
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. --Euripides
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. --Eleanor Marx
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. --Basho
Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. --Turkish Proverb
FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing! Details at...uh, when the little hand is on the....
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. --William Saroyan
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. --Socrates
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. --Frank Lloyd Wright
I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called"brightness," but that doesn't work.
If you're up against someone more intelligent than you are, do something totally insane and let him think himself to death. --Pyanfar Chanur
Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong. --David Fasold
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. --Albert Edward Wiggam
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Aristotle
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. --Stephen Hawking
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. --Walter Lippman
It's good to be clever, but not to show it. --French Proverb
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. --Sigmund Freud
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. --Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. --Tao Te Ching
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. --Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Nerd Pride: Why do they think "walking encyclopedia" is an insult?
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. --Sandra Carey
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. --H. L. Mencken
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. --Confucius
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. --John Patrick
Philosophy is the battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. --Ron Wild
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. --Frank M. Garafola
The doors of wisdom are never shut. --Benjamin Franklin
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. --James Oppenheim
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water. --Camerounian Proverb
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. --Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. --George Bernard Shaw
The price of wisdom is eternal thought. --Frank Birch
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. --Bhagavad Gita
The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting. --Sallust
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. --F. Scott Fitzgerald
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. --Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is intelligent life on Earth, but I'm just visiting.
