Quotes About Wisdom

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

A calm mind helps our human intelligence to assess the situation realistically.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It's always smarter than we are.

True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

Ninety percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.' – Cherise

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.