Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
intelligence is not something which exists, but something one does; it is active, interpersonal and generative, and it manifests when we think and act.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Utilizing fear-based intelligence is how most people have come to operate, and that intelligence will search forever for its purpose and happiness.
David Bingham • Effortless Being
Intelligence is of the heart, whereas intellect is of the mind.
Richard Rudd • The Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
don’t want them to rely on anything else except what’s within them: their inherent sense of observation, their intuition, and their ability to comprehend and retain information.
Amy E. Herman • Visual Intelligence
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its environme
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