Quotes About Intelligence

He that is rich is wise.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

'Tis folly to be wise.

My friends call me an owl. Apparently, it's a combination of being wise and having big eyes.

The wise are above books.

I'd like to be very wise.

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

Your writings should reflect wise thoughts.

Tierra Whack is very wise.

Yachty is very wise.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

It takes a very wise man to act the fool.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Let's be clear about one thing. Non-college educated doesn't mean stupid. It means you wisely chose not to pay $40,000 a year to be lectured on microaggressions.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.