Intelligence Quotes

The intelligent have plans, the wise have principles.

~ Raheel Farooq

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable, the latter is not.

~ Criss Jami

To struggle against darkness is not to blunder ignorantly, intelligence is needed to generate right action.

~ Belsebuub

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.

~ Vera Nazarian

What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.

~ Chanctetinyea J.j. Ouellette

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

~ Criss Jami

To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.

~ Charbel Tadros

It's difficult being an intellectual in a bread and butter sort of town.

~ Anonymous

Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow with life - glad to be alive.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.

~ Anthony Ryan

Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.

~ Raheel Farooq

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

~ Carl R White

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I went to interview a man with a high reputation for wisdom, because I felt that here if anywhere I should succeed in disproving the oracle and pointing out to my divine authority 'You said that I was the wisest of men, but here is a man who is wiser than I am.' Well, I gave a thorough examination to this person... and in conversation with him I formed the impression that although in many people's opinion, and especially in his own, he appeared to be wise, in fact he was not. Then when I began to try to show him that he only thought he was wise and was not really so, my efforts were resented both by him and by many of the other people present. However, I reflected as I walked away: 'Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know... [A]s I pursued my investigation at the god's command,... my honest impression was... that the people with the greatest reputations were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better qualified in practical intelligence.

~ Socrates

If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Store up knowledge. Then question your own knowledge in order to expand your mind, both to build and to create more space. Then store up more knowledge. And so on. That is wisdom.

~ Criss Jami

Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity, our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

To develop your intuition, you need to respect it as a natural intelligence.

~ Laurie Nadel

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

~ J.d. Salinger

In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.

~ Erol Ozan

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

~ Ayn Rand

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

~ Compton Gage

They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.

~ Compton Gage

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

~ Compton Gage

Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

~ Compton Gage

What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?

~ Compton Gage

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.

~ Compton Gage

Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.

~ Compton Gage

As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.

~ Compton Gage

Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.

~ Compton Gage

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

~ Compton Gage

If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:

~ Compton Gage

Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:

~ Compton Gage

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

~ Compton Gage

The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.

~ Compton Gage

There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:

~ Compton Gage

Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-

~ Compton Gage

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