Our bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

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.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

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.