If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

Wit is educated insolence.

Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared that I had a brain. And he was always – well, making me feel that I was better than I thought I was.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Never complain and never explain.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, ‚I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me.‘

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

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.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Even Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.