The universe is an intelligence test.

Intelligence is a moral category.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

I'm in awe of the universe but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals though even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative whether Buddhist or Catholic.