Jerry Lewis Quotes

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

I think I rely on my talent more than my brain sometimes.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.