Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.