Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

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

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

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

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

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.

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

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

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

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

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

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Common sense is often underrated.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

Education does not necessarily make one wise?

What good is strength if you have no sense?

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.