Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal with takes the imagination by storm and second a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love love love that is the soul of genius.

Intelligence is the wife imagination is the mistress memory is the servant.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years but humor implies intelligence.

I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time he's very kind to people.

I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence too and he's really cute all those things - but if you don't respect your partner you'll get sick of him.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

A woman has to be intelligent have charm a sense of humor and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Ironically Latin American countries in their instability give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves as far as is possible in the society of today that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish and someone who is passionate.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

I believe that history might be and ought to be taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.