“I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.”– George Woodcock Related Quotes “Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.”– Henry David Thoreau “It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.”– Joseph Franklin Rutherford “I’ve always felt, in all my books, that there’s a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence – providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”– Studs Terkel