No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana

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.
Abigail Adams

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht

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

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

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

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.
E. Stanley Jones

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
Lewis Mumford

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Miguel de Unamuno

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore