Jonas Salk Quotes

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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.

History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.