Matt Drudge Quotes

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.

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.

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

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

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

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.

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

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

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

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

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

I'm not stupid. I mean, I didn't go to college but I've got a lot of common sense.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

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.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.