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Quotes About Intelligence

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
~ Hugo Grotius
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.
~ James Gleick
Life is a festival only to the wise.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
~ Diogenes of Sinope
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
~ Tony Abbott
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~ Holly Near
Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life.
~ Voltaire
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
~ Henri Bergson
Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.
~ David Icke
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
~ Rumi
The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.
~ Lewis Henry Morgan
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
~ Confucius
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
~ Ivan Panin
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
~ Thomas Huxley
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence.
~ Shakti Gawain
Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
~ Theodor Fontane
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
~ Stanley Marion Garn
The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.
~ Peter Drucker
Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.
~ Thiruvalluvar
You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.
~ Neale Donald Walsch