One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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.

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.

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.

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

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence the morality the justice and the interest of the people themselves.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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.