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  • I would only change it from the word "intelligence" to "intellectual maturity". There are many extremely intelligent people who narrowly pursue only one course. +5
  • Only 2? Your just getting started, however, it is a beginning. Intelligence is more complex a matter than simply weighing two opposing views at once. Intelligence is having your mind trained expertly in many forms. How fucked up an answer is that. Is it black or white? Are you hot or cold? As soon as I finish this cigarette, I'll explain the logical answer.
  • 1) "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-09-24 – 1940-12-21) was an Irish-American novelist and short story writer." "Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true. The Crack-Up (1936)" Source and further information: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald 2) This is a nice saying, and there is certainly much truth in it. However, it cannot be taken as a working definition of intelligence; but it could help to evaluate intelligence. Some people are more able than others to do this, and those who are not very good at it are not necessarily less intelligent.

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