Wale Quotes

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.

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

Intelligence is not a science.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Science is not wisdom.

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

Cleverness is not wisdom.

People are not stupid.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

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

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

I seek the truth.