Intelligence and knowledge .

[china]

Quoting china AnnaG
A brain which is addicted to acquiring knowledge is only capable to function within that knowledge , it is incapable of stepping outside , into the 'unknown'.Such a brain has stopped learning from moment to moment and therefore it is incapable of comprehending anything new.
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roflmao If you don't retain knowledge there is no point to learning. If you don't act upon your curiosity, you don't learn. You expect enlightenment to happen without knowledge? Remove all the cells in your head that have to do with remembering knowledge and you WILL be enlightened.
If you know nothing of the solar system, you don't understand that Earth orbits the sun. No knowledge, no comprehension.
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Princeton University Press defines "intellect" as "mind: knowledge and intellectual ability"
PUP defines "intelligence" as "the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience", which is what the mind does.

Merriam-Webster says "intelligence" is

Quote: 1 a (1) : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason (2) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests) b Christian Science : the basic eternal quality of divine Mind c : mental acuteness : shrewdness
2 a : an intelligent entity; especially : angel b : intelligent minds or mind <cosmic intelligence>
3 : the act of understanding : comprehension
4 a : information, news b : information concerning an enemy or possible enemy or an area; also : an agency engaged in obtaining such information
5 : the ability to perform computer functions
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and "intellect" is

Quote: 1 a : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge b : the capacity for rational or intelligent thought especially when highly developed
2 : a person with great intellectual powers
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Which part of the above portrays an intelligence ?:?:
Can/ will an intelligent person describe intelligence?....or come to conclusion and say "this is intelligence" ? Perhaps this is just a little above you AnnG .

 

[china]

In our search for knowledge, in our acquisitive desires, we are losing love, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity to cruelty; we are becoming more and more specialized and less and less integrated. Wisdom cannot be replaced by knowledge, and no amount of explanation, no accumulation of facts will free man from suffering. Knowledge is necessary, science has its place; but if the mind and heart are suffocated by knowledge, and if the cause of suffering is explained away, life becomes vain and meaningless. And is this not what is happening to most of us? Our education is making us more and more shallow; it is not helping us to uncover the deeper layers of our being, and our lives are increasingly disharmonious and empty.Information, the knowledge of facts, though ever increasing, is by its very nature limited. Wisdom is infinite, it includes knowledge and the way of action; but we take hold of a branch and think it is the whole tree. Through the knowledge of the part, we can never realize the joy of the whole. Intellect can never lead to the whole, for the intellect in its self is only a segment, a part.8O

 

[JLM]

There's no big mystery to it, China. Knowledge is like a data base. Intelligence is a lot more, it's the ability to apply what's in the data base to solve problems or arrive at conclusions. A simple concept really.

 

[china]

JLM

There's no big mystery to it, China. Knowledge is like a data base.

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Yes JLM ,there is nothing to knowledge ;like I have stated in my posts above ..."knowledge is only a part of the whole " .
Knowledge is necessary for few things: keep us alive , comfort , security, what else...unless you like to play ego games ;and impress others with "look everyone ,how much I know".

Intelligence is a lot more, it's the ability to apply what's in the data base to solve problems or arrive at conclusions. A simple concept really.

An intelligence,a simple concept ? The moment we try to describe what intelligence is , what we are describing is our own projection , and our projection is the thought which derives from memory ,which is a past and obviously intelligence is not a past .Intelligence is an action and that action can only be displayed or performed in the present .Perhaps a better way to describe intelligence (if possible ) is to show what intelligence is not. Intelligence is not accumulating knowledge or knowledge of how to " spell "or any other grammatical expertise and allot more :roll: