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Intelligence

Intellect vs intelligence
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, intellectually and emotionally.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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If you bring your emotions into business, you say, business cannot be well managed or be honest. So you divide your mind into compartments: in one compartment you keep your religious interest, in another your emotions, in a third your business interest which has nothing to do with your intellectual and emotional life. Your business mind treats life merely as a means of getting money in order to live. So this chaotic existence, this division of your life continues. If you really used your intelligence in business, that is, if your emotions and your thought were acting harmoniously, your business might fail. It probably would. And you will probably let it fail when you really feel the absurdity, the cruelty, and the exploitation that is involved in this way of living.
Until you really approach all of life with your intelligence, instead of merely with your intellect, no system in the world will save us from the ceaseless toil for bread.

The body has its own intelligence
The body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.
—KRISHNAMURTI
From the book The Flight of the Eagle
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The essence of intelligence
Freedom from the known is the essence of intelligence. It is this intelligence in operation in the universe.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Intelligence demands doubt and impersonal observation
Intelligence demands doubting, questioning, not being impressed by others’ enthusiasm or energy. Intelligence demands that there be impersonal observation.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Intelligence is not measurable
Thought is measurable; intelligence is not.
—KRISHNAMURTI
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Krishnamurti: To read between the lines.
DB: Yes, to see what it means. There is also another relevant meaning given in the dictionary which is: mental alertness.
K: Yes, mental alertness.
DB: This is very different from what people have in mind when they measure intelligence. Now, considering many of the things you have said, you would say intelligence is not thought. You say thought takes place in the old brain, it is a physical process, electrochemical; it has been amply proved by science that all thought is essentially a physical, chemical process. Then we could say perhaps that intelligence is not of the same order, it is not of the order of time at all.
K: Intelligence.
DB: Yes, intelligence reads “between the lines” of thought, sees the meaning of it. There is one more point before we start on this question: if you say thought is physical, then the mind or intelligence or whatever you want to call it, seems different, it is of a different order. Would you say there is a real difference between the physical and intelligence?
K: Yes. Are we saying that thought is matter?
DB: I would rather call it a material process.
K: All right; thought is a material process, and what is the relationship between that and intelligence? Is intelligence the product of thought?
DB: I think that we can take for granted that it is not.
K: Why do we take it for granted?
DB: Simply because thought is mechanical.
K: Thought is mechanical, that is right.
DB: Intelligence is not.
K: So thought is measurable; intelligence is not. And how does it happen that this intelligence comes into existence? If thought has no relationship with intelligence, then is the cessation of thought the awakening of intelligence? Or is it that intelligence, being independent of thought, not of time, therefore exists always?

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