Book Smarts Quotes

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.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

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.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

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

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.

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

An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.