Undernourished intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen filled with nothing the body can use.

The private citizen beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion will soon see perhaps that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Poets are the sense philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks but few with their intelligence. I however assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence mathematics or maps.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images devious and prejudicial language dubious linkages weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior but then anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

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

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

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

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

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.

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