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

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her without reserve she lends them to us she shows us these forms which our watching eyes do not see which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

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

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.