"I am not young enough to know everything." Does age increase or decrease intelligence? Or is it not intelligence, but awareness? what do you think?
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doodlethenoodle is now an Oregonian
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It's not your intelligence that gets you closer to "knowing all things," but it is experience (that comes with age) that increases your knowledge. You can be intelligent and not be knowledgeable about things. But you can't be expierienced and not have knowledge of things.
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I think this was best answered by Mark Twain: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
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Nobody knows everything. Intelligence is just an abstract concept, the real meaning of which is limited to context. You can slowly forget about certain things and how to apply them as you get older, but you'll invariably learn more at the same time. As you grow older you learn more about the world, so it could be said that awareness increases. But your perspective changes as well and you may not be able to view things the same way you used to, depriving you of valuable insight. Sorry to be vague, but it all depends on how you look at it.
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