Quotes About Intelligence

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.