Marvin Hamlisch Quotes

We should never overestimate an audience's culture, but we should never underestimate their intelligence.

Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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

People are not stupid.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

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

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

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

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

There are all different types of people out there who are going to say all kinds of things, online and in real life. The important thing is to know which ones to listen to.

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.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.