Quotes About Wisdom

Never pass up an opportunity to keep your mouth shut.

You're fooling yourself if you argue with a fool - others may not know the difference.

A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards.

My Dad used to say 'always fight fire with fire', which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.