"The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
― Simone Weil
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Intelligence
More From Simone Weil
- "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
- "Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
- "A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
More In Intelligence
- "An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things."― Bryant H. McGill
- "I wasn’t privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."― E. Howard Hunt
- "There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."― James Lovelock