True Intelligence Quotes

• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "What Is Intelligence?" by Max Miller, bigthink.com.

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• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

  Socrates

  Funny, Spiritual, Intelligent

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Differences, Diversity, Welcome

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Stories, Moments

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  Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Humility, Christianity

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

  John Taylor

  Children, Men, Mysterious

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• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

  Ian Mcewan

  Imagination, Fabulous

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• True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Intelligent, Modest

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.

  Steven Harrison

  Thinking, Confusion, Misunderstood

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• Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Expression, Moments, Accepting

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• True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Play

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Want, Flow, Making Money

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Atheist, Disappointment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

  Adyashanti

  Thinking, Doe, Use

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