Intelligence does not always define wisdom, but adaptability to change does.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.

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.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know what to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

Women are brighter than men, that's true. But it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

If the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

If his IQ slips any lower, we ll have to water him twice a day.

If a man is intelligent and Fascist, he is not honest. If he is honest and Fascist, he is not intelligent.

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

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