In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.


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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE
To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE
If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE
Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE
If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing sub...
HENRI MATISSE
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...
HENRI MATISSE
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC
• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE
The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
HENRI MURGER