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Intelligence and Asking Questions


            "Not because you think you know everything without questioning, but rather because you question everything you think you know." The term intelligence means the ability to reason and understand, and the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. The person who asks questions to increase knowledge about things is more intelligent as compared to the person who believes he/she knows everything. Considering the possibility of being wrong is a sign of intelligence. Curiosity of knowing things makes a person to ask questions which is important to be smart. No one knows everything, so questioning makes a person smart enough to realize that fact. If someone is asking questions that have not been considered or asked before and they stir thought and discussion then that would obviously show and intelligent curiosity.
             An intelligent person realizes that the sum of things he/she does not know is immensely greater than what he does know. The person also realizes that many of the things he/she knows are probably wrong which makes him/her to ask questions about everything. Due to this characteristic the intelligent person may not be confident and decisive enough to be effective. As Bertrand Russell quoted, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." In this quote, the certainty is used (perhaps unconsciously) by the 'stupid' people to convince everyone else to do what they say, and believe what they believe. This certainty often comes from ignorance, just as everyone once believed the world was flat and the Sun revolved around the Earth. Smart ones are those who doubts and don't think they have the answer to everything. A person who has some knowledge knows that he/she doesn't know everything and asking questions is the way to increase the boundary of his knowledge. .
             Curiosity is the ultimate tool to produce simple solutions for complex problems.


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