Quotes About Wisdom

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into the middle of situations, then intelligence arises automatically.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

Intelligence is derived from two words

He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

Intelligence forbids tears.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.