Quotes About Wisdom

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

God has placed clear limits on Man's intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Action is movement with intelligence