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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.