The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness and expand our senses our perception our intelligence our sensibility then they will become interested in this music.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was unfortunately lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time you cannot have the kind of ingenuity assertiveness independence and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

That which the Fascists hate above all else is intelligence.

It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her without reserve she lends them to us she shows us these forms which our watching eyes do not see which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker and they liked us to learn poems by heart which I found I loved doing.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.