It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

Poets are the sense philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks but few with their intelligence. I however assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence mathematics or maps.