“Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence,” Will muttered.”

“What is there to say? Purely and simply this: When a bachelor of philosophy from Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the ground of his color. I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. Wren one else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men, I say that intelligence has never saved anyone; and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

“There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intelligence.”

Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams

“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.”

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi

“Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.”

Clifford D. Simak Highway of Eternity

“Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

“Everything that passes in the world, proves to us, in the clearest manner, that it is not governed by an intelligent being.”

Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist

“You have got nothing to fear except the ignorance of your intelligence or lack of knowledge.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”

John Piper (1946) American writer