People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who well treated might have been an angel.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

In the aftermath of September 11 and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

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.

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

Scepticism that dry caries of the intelligence.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.