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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.

I am every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who did not do very well in school. The basic system of education, I did not fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.