Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

People are not stupid.

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

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

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

Common sense is often underrated.

The one thing I cannot support in a woman is stupidity.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

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

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.