"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
― Alfred North Whitehead
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― Alfred North Whitehead
More From Alfred North Whitehead
- "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
- "Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
- "Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
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- "The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency."― Bobby Ray Inman
- "Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."― Janis Joplin
- "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