# Intelligence Reframed

- Author: [Howard Gardner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/howard-gardner.md)
- Quotes: 1
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/howard-gardner/intelligence-reframed

## Quotes

> An a priori decision to eliminate spiritual intelligence from consideration is no more justifiable than a decision to admit it by fiat or on faith. After all, once one includes the understanding of the personal realm within a study of intelligence, such human proclivities as the spiritual must legitimately be considered. There certainly are no easy grounds for a decision, but several other intelligences deal with phenomena other than sheer physical matter. If the abstract realm of mathematics constitutes a reasonable area of intelligence (and few would challenge that judgment), why not the abstract realm of the spiritual?

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