Alexandra Petri Quotes

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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

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

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Nobody is born wise.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

... smart but not 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.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

We can all make better decisions when we're informed.

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment.

Intellect is not wisdom.

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

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

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

Cleverness is not wisdom.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.