Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Intelligence is not a science.

What one fool can understand, another can.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

I'd like to be very wise.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.