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"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."
"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."
"They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons."
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
"In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise."
"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."
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"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character."
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind."
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."
"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."
"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
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