Wisdom Phrases

Phrases

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A stroke of genius
• A victory for common sense
• A word to the wise
• Adaptive learning
• As wise as an owl
• Bonus genius (a good spirit accompanying and supporting someone)
• Book learning
• Brevity is the soul of wit
• Business acumen
• Carnal knowledge
• Common sense
• Counter intelligence
• Dear Prudence (The Beatles song)
• Distance learning
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
• Embedded intelligence
• Evil genius
• Font of all knowledge
• General knowledge
• Genius bonus (a joke or theme added to a programme aimed at well informed people)
• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains (Thomas Carlyle quotation)
• Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration (Thomas Edison quotation)
• Genius loves company
• Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (Will Smith song)
• Green slime (military slang term for the intelligence corps)
• Horse sense
• I have nothing to declare but my genius (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• Intelligence everywhere (Motorola advertising slogan)
• It is easy to be wise after the event
• Keen sense of smell
• Know someone in the biblical sense
• Knowledge economy
• Knowledge engineer
• Knowledge is power

• Learning curve
• Learning difficulties
• Lowering prices forever, that's Comet sense (Comet Electrical Stores advertising slogan)
• Lulled into a false sense of security
• Make sense of
• More money than sense
• Native wit
• Not everything in black and white makes sense (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Nuggets of wisdom
• Old head on young shoulders
• Older and wiser
• Pearls of wisdom
• Penny wise, pound foolish
• Perfect sense
• Pure genius (Guinness advertising slogan)
• Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
• Secure in the knowledge
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen novel)
• Sense and Simplicity (Philips advertising slogan)
• Sixth sense
• Spark of genius
• Street wise
• Swarm intelligence
• The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Autobiography of T E Lawrence (of Arabia))
• The best way of expressing your intelligence (Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan)
• The knowledge
• The wisdom of Solomon
• There's no answer to that (A catchphrase from Morecambe and Wise)
• Three wise men
• Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise
• Whisper words of wisdom, let it be (The Beatles song lyric)
• Wise after the event
• Wise beyond your years
• Wise up
• Word to the wise
• Words of wisdom
• Working knowledge of
• Worldly wise
• You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• You know it makes sense (Road Safety Campaign advertising slogan)