For passion be it observed brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots especially during youth.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who well treated might have been an angel.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

In the aftermath of September 11 and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power intelligence and love and the lord of his own thoughts he holds the key to every situation.

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Scepticism that dry caries of the intelligence.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense restoring our military might and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Where the stakes are the highest in the war on terror we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing planning and collaborative enforcement.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.