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.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

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.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

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.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

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

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

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

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

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.

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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.

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

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.

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

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

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.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

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

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.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.