Harvey Mackay Quotes

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

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

The best university is the university of life.

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.

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

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.

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.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.