Tobias Smollett Quotes

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

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

... smart but not wise.

Some are smart but they are not wise

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

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

I'd like to be very wise.

People are not stupid.

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

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

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.

Common sense is not so common.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.