“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.”

“There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.”

“The man who has an intelligent child is doomed to spend his life justifying every decision he makes.”

“Be proud, Frenchmen! Lift high your heads, Frenchmen! You are no longer anything, and this man is everything! He holds in his hand your intelligence, as a child holds a bird. Any day he pleases, he can strangle the genius of France.”

“Of course the intellectual class did not notice this for many decades, as an intellectual is a highly educated man who can't do arithmetic with his shoes on, and is proud of the lack.”

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”

“I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, … a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.”

“Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.”

“A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.”

“Truth enlightens man's intelligence and shapes his freedom.”