The person must be intelligent! Bashny.Net

Excerpt from a letter from Dmitry Likhachev



- Many people think: intelligent man - is the one who read a lot, received a good education (and even primarily humanitarian), traveled a lot, knows several languages.

Meanwhile, you can have it all and to be unintelligent and can not have any of these to a large extent and still be internally intelligent man.


Intelligence is not just knowledge, and ability to understand another. It manifests itself in thousands and thousands of little things: the ability to argue respectfully, behave modestly at the table, the ability to seamlessly (which is discreetly) to help another, to protect nature, do not litter around him - not to litter or cigarette butts cursing, bad ideas (this is also the garbage, and how!).

I knew the Russian North peasants who were really intelligent. They observed amazing cleanliness in their homes, were able to appreciate the good songs, knew how to tell "byvalschiny" (that is what happened to them, or otherwise), lived an orderly life, were hospitable and friendly, with sympathetic to the misfortunes of others, and a strange joy.

Intelligence - the ability to understand the perception, it is a tolerant attitude to the world and to the people.

DS Likhachev, "Letters on the good and the beautiful"