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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

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John Henry Newman

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

Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Euripides

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Naguib Mahfouz

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

Alan Alda

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

Abby Elliott

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

George Herbert

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Frank Carlucci

Intelligence is not a science.

Plautus

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Phil Jackson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

E. M. Forster

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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.

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Elizabeth I

My Noble Intelligencer …. My Ubiquitous Eyes

These appear in much of her correspondence to Dee. In acknowledgement of the second, Dee signed his letters and reports to the Queen with two zeros (representing his eyes) and the numeral 7 which at the time in numerology was the number of mystery. Many believe that the James Bond moniker of ‘007’ derives from England’s original great secret agent and superspy who the queen would allow almost anything.

Joseph Pulitzer

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

Masayoshi Son

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

Louis van Gaal

I'm not a stupid man.

Alexandre Dumas

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy