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View Quote Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

View Quote Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Epistemology and Subtractive Knowledge, p. 78.

View Quote The three greatest mistakes that can be made—lack of intelligence, lack of resolution, or lack of responsibility.

View Quote Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, (translated by Rex Warner, in the Penguin Classics), Book 1, Chapter 9 (p. 80)

View Quote Until now, human intelligence, which is no more than a minute aspect of universal intelligence, has been distorted and misused by the ego. I call that “intelligence in the service of madness.” Splitting the atom requires great intelligence. Using that intelligence for building and stockpiling atom bombs is insane or at best extremely unintelligent. Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous. This intelligent stupidity, for which one could find countless obvious examples, is threatening our survival as a species.

View Quote Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)

View Quote The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self interest, and it is extremely shortsighted. Most politicians and business people are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is shortlived and always turns out to be eventually self defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence unites.

View Quote Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)

View Quote Your inner body is not solid but spacious. It is not your physical form but the life that animates the physical form. It is the intelligence that created and sustains the body, simultaneously coordinating hundreds of different functions of such extraordinary complexity that the human mind can only understand a tiny fraction of it. When you become aware of it, what is really happening is that the intelligence is becoming aware of itself. It is the elusive “life” that no scientist has ever found because the consciousness that is looking for it is it.

View Quote Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, (2005)