Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

People are not stupid.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

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

Common sense is not so common.

You have to have the common sense.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

Fools are not mad folks.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

Don't be stupid. It's not smart.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Only a fool is not afraid.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.