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.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.