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True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
Sep 17, 2025
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.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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.
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.
We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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.
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.
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.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
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.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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