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Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

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Alfred Binet

Mere numbers cannot bring out. . . the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. . . . What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas!. . . The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!

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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

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A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. . . . With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

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The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

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A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

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