Mother Wit Quotes
- I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother… — Maya Angelou
- Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou
- No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. — Thomas Huxley