Wise Vs Intelligent Quotes

#1. 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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#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. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Marilyn Vos Savant

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

Debasish Mridha

#8. 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

#9. The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Raheel Farooq

#10. 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

#11. 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.
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Anna Sofia Botkin

#12. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Agona Apell

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

Hank Green

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Debasish Mridha

#24. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#26. 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

#27. 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.

#28. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

#30. 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.

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