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- There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
- Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908), 1905
- The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
- Krishnamurti
- I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- The pleasure of the sportsman in the chase is measured by the intelligence of the game and its capacity to elude pursuit and in the labor involved in the capture.
- John Dean Caton
- We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the luke-warm approval of men of intelligence.
- Vauvenargues
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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