Quotes About Book Smarts

#1. It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

Kendare Blake

#2. There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#3. Our everyday "commonsense" knowledge as a human being is even greater; "street smarts" actually require substantially more of our neocortex than "book smarts." Including this brings our estimate to well over 100 million patterns, taking into account the redundancy factor of about 100.

Ray Kurzweil

#4. Christianity is about taking broken people, transforming them, and then using those transformed people to transform the world.

Francis Chan

#5. If you don't have common sense, ask someone who does

Sonya Withrow

#6. Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

#7. Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?

Thomas Hardy

#8. 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Andre Leon Talley

#10. One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

Leonard Mlodinow

#11. For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

Whitey Herzog

#12. Empire of Deception is a sure thing
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Jonathan Eig

#13. In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness

Pope Francis

#14. With eight minutes left, the game could be won in the next five or ten minutes.

Jimmy Armfield