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Quotes About Wisdom

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~ Oscar Wilde
As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.
~ John Trudell
The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.
~ David J. Schwartz
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
~ Carl Sagan
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
~ Lawrence Bossidy
Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
~ Patrick Stump
I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.
~ Rickson Gracie
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
~ John Naisbitt
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
What a splendid head, yet no brain.
~ Aesop
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
~ David M. Shoup
Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.
~ Walter Raleigh
Education is understanding relationships.
~ George Washington Carver
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
~ Ovid, Metamorphoses
It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
~ Ernest Holmes
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.
~ Michael Lewis
Brains are an asset, if you hide them.
~ Mae West
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
~ Will Cuppy
Everything intelligent is so boring.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
~ Thelma Ritter
Primitive does not mean stupid.
~ Albie Sachs