"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
― Henri Bergson
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― Henri Bergson
More From Henri Bergson
- "In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
- "Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
- "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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- "I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors."― Thomas B. Macaulay
- "I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that."― Steven Moffat
- "You can’t get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."― Gijs de Vries