It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
There's a difference between having an edge and being stupid.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
I expect people to at least use some thought.
You've got to be smart about tackling.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.
When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.
The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.
Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.
