Wise And Intelligent Sayings

#1. 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

John Abbott

#2. My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Brandon Lee

#3. Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

Desiderius Erasmus

#4. Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.

Marianne Williamson

#6. It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Anonymous

#8. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Gautama Buddha

#9. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Anonymous

#11. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.

Anonymous

#12. Men are not intelligent when it comes to cheating, but they're wise enough to choose a woman who will put up with it.

Michael Baisden

#13. To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

Kamand Kojouri

#14. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

Anonymous

#15. Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Criss Jami

#16. Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

Gloria Steinem

#17. Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Thiruvalluvar

#18. The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.

Raheel Farooq

#19. The intelligent find problems;
the wise solve them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

Andre Maurois

#21. Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

Gautama Buddha

#23. The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are - their work should speak for itself.

Tsugumi Ohba

#24. The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

David Hume

#25. An egoist is always intelligent, never wise.

Raheel Farooq

#26. When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

John Connolly

#27. The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Hamza Yusuf

#28. If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

Gautama Buddha

#29. An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

Jen Knox

#30. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.

Karen Armstrong

#31. Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

Solomon

#32. In a group of intelligent men expect only one to be wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

Debasish Mridha

#34. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#35. Just be kind to be wise and to be intelligent.

Debasish Mridha

#36. It is demonstrable from Geology that there was a period when no organic beings had existence: these organic beings must therefore have had a beginning subsequently to this period; and where is that beginning to be found, but in the will and fiat of an intelligent and all-wise Creator?

William Buckland

#37. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle.

#38. Well, sounding wise wasn't difficult. It was a lot easier than being intelligent, actually, since you didn't have to say anything surprising or come up with any new insights. You just let your brain's pattern-matching software complete the cliche, using whatever Deep Wisdom you'd stored previously.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#39. A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.

Debasish Mridha

#40. Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#41. An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

Debasish Mridha

#42. Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

Debasish Mridha

#43. The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. In a group of intelligent men people expect only one to be wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#45. He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved.

Daphne Kalotay

#46. The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.

John C. Lilly

#47. As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.

Butterfly Boucher

#48. Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. "If you want your children to be intelligent," he said, "read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." He

Neil Gaiman

#49. John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

Hank Green

#50. The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings; so are the most stupid

Agona Apell

#51. Intelligent decisions reward you much.
Wise decisions reward you the most.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#52. The women hailed in the bible as examples for us were exceedingly wise, clever, intelligent, capable, and quick-witted. They were not shackled to the home, brainless ans without ambition. But their ambitions were God-oriented and God-directed.
~ Jennie

Anna Sofia Botkin

#53. If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass.

Vincent Van Gogh

#54. The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Raheel Farooq

#55. Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciousness, self awareness, human values, conscience that helps us know what is right and wrong and independent will that helps us to choose right over wrong.

Jeroninio Almeida

#56. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.

Debasish Mridha

#57. You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#58. To be wise for one day is better than to be intelligent for a hundred.

Matshona Dhliwayo