If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don’t see why we shouldn’t use them against identified enemy targets.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

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

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

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

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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 men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

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

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.