The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done.

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

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

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.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

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

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

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

You can use all the quantitative data you can get but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

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

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The universe is an intelligence test.

Intelligence is a moral category.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.