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Quotes About Wisdom

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
~ St. Jerome
The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence
~ Holly Goldberg Sloan
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.
~ Zhuangzi
There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.
~ Michael Beckwith
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
~ Carl Sandburg
No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
~ Mark Twain
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
~ Eckhart Tolle
Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
~ William Feather
In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
~ Joseph Heller
If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.
~ Martin Firrell
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
~ Rumi
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
~ Elbert Hubbard
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
~ Lewis Mumford
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?
~ Mary C. Ames