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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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Alfred Binet Les idées modernes sur les enfants (1909), 118.
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
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Alfred Binet, Les idées modernes sur les enfants (1909), 141.
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An intelligent man neither allows himself to be controlled nor attempts to control others; he wishes reason alone to rule, and that always.
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Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères (1688), “Of the Affections,” #71
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She should be my counsellor,But not my tyrant. For the spirit needsImpulses from a deeper source than hers;And there are motions, in the mind of man,That she must look upon with awe.
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William Cullen Bryant, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 353.