Lady Gregory Quotes

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

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

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

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.

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.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

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

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.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

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.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.