I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions instincts and passions intelligence and reason.

The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

I apologize for being obvious but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man or any man of such warm intelligence.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought system planning intelligence and honest purpose as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves! Why thirty or forty skins or hides as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.