Alfred Binet

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

- Alfred Binet

"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."

- Alfred Binet

"The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity."

- Alfred Binet

"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."

- Alfred Binet