Intelligence Quotes

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

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

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.

The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

I am not from the Earth. I am from a place artist are obsessed with. A place where everything makes sense from the point of view of imagination, but not human intelligence.