There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

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.
Andrew Jackson

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

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous Huxley

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
David Letterman

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings

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.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
James Allen

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Ambrose Bierce

The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

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.
Hillary Clinton

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

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.
Edward de Bono