Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't 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.
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?"
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.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
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.'
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
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.
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
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.