John Churton Collins Quotes

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Some are smart but they are not wise

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

I'd like to be very wise.

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Common sense is not so common.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.