“The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.”

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

“Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.”

“There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion”

“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”

“When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius”