Bill Cosby Quotes

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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

... smart but not wise.

Do not seek advice from the ignorant.

People are not stupid.

'Tis folly to be wise.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Common sense is not so common.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Much learning does not teach sense.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

You don't get old being stupid.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel

Some are smart but they are not wise