We are Home sapiens. It is the scientific name of our species and means “wise man”. Some of this wisdom is reflected in this collection of proverbs and quotes.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeI believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
Henry David ThoreauI can laugh with one eye and cry with the other.
Annet Bijlmakers-VaessenI have taken to living by my wits.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
I have the brain of a dung beetle. It's full of shit.
MinkukelI mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
But then it occured to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, ...
Bill BrysonBut then it occured to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, ...
Source: Lost Continent
I never argue, I just explain why I'm right.
(unknown author)I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John PeelI think, one seldom regrets something one has done as much as one regrets what one might have done, and did not.
Dorothy L. SayersSource: A Presumption of Death
Quoted: Harriet
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
Quoted: Gandalf
I would rather have an average weight or an average income than an average intelligence.
MinkukelIf a rich man ate a snake, they would say it was because of his wisdom; if a poor man ate it, they would say it was because of his stupidity.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
(unknown author)If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis RochIf the brain sows not corn, it plants thistles.
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William BlakeIf you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark TwainIf you wish good advice, consult an old man.
Old people have more experience than younger ones.If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
Gautama BuddhaIgnorance is bliss.
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Minna Thomas AntrimSource: Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
John LennonIn my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
John AdamsIn the olive grove, a wise man at the feet and a wild man at the head.
In wine there is wisdom. In beer there is strength. In water there is bacteria.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen HawkingIt is a wise man who can laugh at his own jokes.
It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.
Jerome CadyIt is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La RochefoucauldIt is from listening to old men that you learn wisdom.
It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one's cleverness.
François de La RochefoucauldIt is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.
(unknown author)It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Stephen HawkingIt is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
William HazlittIt is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
Wilkie CollinsSource: The Moonstone
Quoted: Gabriel Betteredge
It takes great wisdom to play the fool.
It takes only very few brain cells to be stupid.
MinkukelIt's a miracle that brainless people can talk.
MinkukelIt's good to be clever, but not to show it.
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Just found out what 'sublimation' means ... it happens to my brain all the time.
MinkukelKnowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
LaoziKnowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Early experiences will be very valuable later.Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
(unknown author)Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi HendrixLanguage is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Life is sexually transmitted.
(unknown author)Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin FranklinLong on hair, short on brains.