Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Intellect is not wisdom.

... smart but not wise.

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

'Tis folly to be 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.

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

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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

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

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Much learning does not teach sense.

Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.

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

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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.

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

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

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