Quotes About Wisdom

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.