Our intentions may be very good but because the intelligence is limited the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake but not necessarily a sin for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty or good or well-bred or graceful or intelligent but because they are themselves.
A conversation is a dialogue not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.
I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted intelligent person making the right choices.
Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film it was intelligent it was funny it took a laugh at itself.
Animals are sentient intelligent perceptive funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent but kindness is the most important quality in a man.
I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
I've thought for the last decade or so the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages and had the ability to make it all funny entertaining and pertinent.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship and the intelligence received most forcibly cooperate.
Sincere friendship towards God in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent willing being does most apparently directly and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man and diversity will continue to increase with the progress refinement and differentiation of the human intellect.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice I had freedom of expression.
What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it or rational argument that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.