Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.


p. 135; Ch. 17, December 15, 1939 - Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954)

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.