Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

I'm not a stupid man.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

I'd like to be very wise.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

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

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Common sense is not so common.

Some are smart but they are not wise

The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.