Quotes About Intelligence

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

One of the toughest battles in intelligence is combating conventional wisdom.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.