Some ideas of intelligence

I spend a night in a bar yesterday. This 50-year old history teacher sat in my table ( me and my friends' ). After long discussion on history, i said to him, that there is one flaw in the scientific discussion of history. He was interested and I explained: The science tend to be value-free and try to explain how things happened. But to get to the bottom; what makes things change, what evolves the mankind is mercy, and history writing can never access this fact by its means.

Then he gave me quite a compliment: he said that I am one of the most intelligent women he has ever chatted with. He by the way had children of my age. They were both graduated from university. I didn't feel uncomfortable while we spoke on politics of science and science itself, but I felt truly so, when he asked can he see me again. I said the age is the obstacle. And then there is the beloved one.

We met two weeks ago. Now in a bar I first time send him message: I luv u. He responded the same. Things are looking better I could ever imagine.

My idea of intelligence is of course the faculty of mind well trained into getting down the bottom of things. I claim I recognize an intelligent person when I meet one. For example although the loved one has hardly gone any schools, I could tell after chatting with him, there is down there deep wisdom in him. He did not push for his own ends, although he could tell what he wanted. He is a metalworker, not a university student, but sometimes the intelligence do not get manifested through studies.