Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.