I've always wanted to be a spy and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

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.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret since I've never seen any intelligent military person nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never lie to you.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

A smart man makes a mistake learns from it and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.