Thomas Sowell Quotes

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being 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.

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

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

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

Nobody is born wise.

... smart but not wise.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

The wisest of the wise may err.

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.