Intelligence & Wisdom Quotes

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 function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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

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

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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

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

Kindness is wisdom.

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

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

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

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.

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 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.

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

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

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

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

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

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 recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

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

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

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

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

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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.

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.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.