hmmm, peculiar choice of words: intelligence: in terra legere with the PIE-root as leg, which is the same root for law, lawyer, legal etc: what is known, laid down.

Positively viewed, it can be likened to putting a potato in the ground and watch it grow and multiply. Or like an initiation into a mystery religion, where the prospect is lead underground (Mithra, Bacchus, Pharaonic; Odysseus/Ulysses laying in his self-dug grave to enter the underworld), or buried into water and arises from it anew.

Knowledge and wisdom are two distinct matters. And in terms of frequency, cause and effect, it is of value to say what we mean, and mean what we say.