Kindness is wisdom.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.