Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

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

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

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

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.... Bear this truth always in your mind, that you may be admired for your wit, if you have any; but that nothing but good sense and good qualities can make you be loved.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement