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Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especial

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. – Henri Bergson

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. – Henri Bergson

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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. – Henri Bergson

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. – Confucius

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Information is not knowledge. – Albert Einstein

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One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format thats useful to them. – Stephen Cambone

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. – Aldous Huxley

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