Quotes About Wisdom

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

A smart woman would have shut up. Did I? Hell no. Intelligence is overrated anyway.

When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

I'd rather be a semi intelligent thinker and doer...than a highly intelligent thinker.. or an unintelligent doe

No matter the situation don't let your emotions overpower your intelligence.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.