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

  Alfred N. Whitehead
  English philosopher and mathematician 1861-1947
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1. intelligence
2. apprehended
3. apprehend
4. distinct
5. capacity
6. wisely

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. by : Alfred N. Whitehead

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