Intelligence. It can be called many things and displayed in many ways. I agree with a statement made by Albert Einstein saying “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” This is displayed many times by history’s “greats” including Einstein himself. Many of us percieve intelligence differently. I see it as something that is obtained only through hard work. It is not hard to recieve knowledge, what is hard is creating knowledge. That is what requires imagination.

How hard is it to learn what other people have allready thought out? The truth is, it’s not hard at all. What is hard is discovering new concepts and building on those discoveries to create knowledge. The knowledge of others can easily be taught and learned. It takes those with imagination to interpret and apply that knowledge. The application of knowledge is what breeds “intelligence.”

The so called “great minds” in history, those we consider intelligent, sometimes had very little knowledge. For example, Einstein was a drop out. Being such forced him to rely on his imagination to create the knowledge he needed, some of which had not been explored before. Knowledge is the spawn of imagination; imagination is the grandfather of intelligence, without imagination there would not be intelligence.