“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”
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“In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.”
“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”
“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.”
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”
“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.”
“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.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.”
“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”
“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.”
“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”
“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”
“A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.”
“I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.”
“I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.”
“I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.”
“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”
“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.”
“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”