Quotes About Intelligence

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

Whole divisions entered Finland with no worthwhile intelligence estimates of their opposition, guided by hopelessly inaccurate maps, yet fully burdened with truckloads of propaganda material including reams of posters and brass bands.

The cat language is very complex," Shawn said. "If a cat had written the Harry Potter books, he could have gotten through the whole thing in fifteen pages, tops. And he would still have found the space to mention

In June of 1944, when Field Marshal von Rundstedt, the German commander in France, was told that the Allies were landing in Normandy, he knew exactly what to do. He went out into the garden and pruned his roses. Von Rundstedt knew that in war, early reports, regardless of whether the news is good or bad, are usually misleading. Reacting to them with instant analysis merely makes the problem worse.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Thy quips and thy quiddities.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

There's a skirmish of wit between them.

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

Who wears his wit in his belly, and his guts in his head.

Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.