How would you describe intelligence?

Describe it as what you know,how smart you are.Its just the more intelligence there is the more you remember

I believe that true intelligence lies within self-awareness, or it is perhaps born within that. It really does take a brilliant mind to see ourselves as others do, and to view ourselves (among many other things) from an objective point of view, and not have any sort of biases to anyone or anything. That is someone who transcends humanly and worldly ties, and really lives in an elevated point of view. I believe real intelligence provides the capacity for learning, though I have not yet been able to formulate how a person gains intelligence, coming from the previous viewpoint. All evidence I have received suggests that intelligence is genetic, but there is also another sort of viewpoint I will mention.

Some people can be trained to be intelligent, but lack wisdom. These would be your booksmart people. They really are smart, but only because they were raised to be so. Then there are naturally intelligent people. I think these would be the people with more wisdom, though either type of person can have any amount of wisdom, of course. But if these people are in the same environment as a person with booksmarts, then they can often be just as smart or smarter than those raised to be intelligent. Then there are people born with intelligence who are not raised to be smart. This is my case (to put in a blatant personal bias, oh well). It will often take a very long time for their intelligence to surface, or it will surface in early childhood, then even out or even plummet. Basically, it will take time for that intelligence to surface.

So there's the theory of Genetic Intelligence versus Learned Intelligence, and the theory that true intelligence stems from higher wisdom and the understanding of humanity.

That's my two cents.

The intelligence of a person can be seen at the time when he can take the correct decision that he required. The intelligence is not the knowledge gained by a person. It is the approach of a person in different situations of life. A wise man never be over excited at any time. He never get tensed because of simple reasons. The using of brain creatively, power to take correct decision at correct time etc. are showing an intelligence of a person.

Intelligence is defined as the ability to use knowledge. That is the general definition.

Genius is defined as talented.

Smart is relative to the norm and correlates to IQ. A smart person is how one uses their knowledge the "best" in the comparison to the given norm.

To be knowledgeable is to know a lot but doesn't entails to use that knowledge or to show it.

Wise is the product of what intelligence brings, the experience and judgment.

How would you describe intelligence?

~~~ It is the ability to get a job done, whether tying a shoe or inventing a vaccine for whatever!

I believe that anyone can learn and become intelligent

~~~ That's sweet and all, but your beliefs are irrelevant.

Intelligence is inborn, not garnered from the environment.

You don't 'learn' intelligence, and there is no 'cure' for the unintelligent, We are all on a wide spectrum of intellect.

Sorry, make the best of what you have, and be thankful, there are many less intelligent than you! But we need those 'jobs' done, also!.

well I would say that there are different types of intelligence

some people are book smart but completely useless in the real world

some people are street smart and have never learned to read

there is intelligence and there is wisdom which are quite different from each other

as for the learning again some learn from reading others learn from doing

I find that if you understand something it is easier to learn for example you could read a book which you have got no idea what it is all about and get to the end of the book and have learnt nothing

Personally, I feel feel intelligence isn't limited to just learning but factory recall.

Someone who is capable of learning an instrument and another language; has the capacity to be quite intelligent. One must also be capable of accepting they're wrong, not just humbly but as a challenge to try and better themselves.

Well, unfortunately (or fortunately?) God designed us to use only about 10% of our brain's capacity. Considering what a royal screw up (in the world in general) we've been with just 10% of it, I quess it's truly a blessing that we didn't have all of our mental faculties or we probably wouldn't be having this discussion right now?

Intelligence is the ability to gather information and use information effectively.

Ability to reason and solve problems.