One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community and especially the counterterrorism community is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

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

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Like many intellectuals he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Your intellect may be confused but your emotions will never lie to you.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form whether visual intellectual or musical.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.