Look, the American people are smart.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

I hate to be smart.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

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

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

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

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

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

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

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.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

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.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

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

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.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

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

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

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

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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.

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

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.‘

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.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

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

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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

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 more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.