Emily Dickinson Quotes

Common sense is not too common.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

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

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

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

Common sense is not so common.

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

My Noble Intelligencer …. My Ubiquitous Eyes

I am unacquainted with [God’s] designs but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

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

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.