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Humility. You will never have all the answers, but if you study, work hard, apply yourself, cooperate with others, and consider counters to your preconceptions, you might get some of them, and that's a hell of a lot more than most people get.
Very essential part of intelligence imo. No matter if you yourself or an entire group is humble about not knowing something, it conveys your ability to learn more still, and also your ability to accept that you don't know something / are wrong. People who aren't humble about what they know always strike me as very unintelligent
It's also something you tend to see in very high levels of very difficult fields (when they're functioning well). Many serious scientists for instance tend to not make definitive statements often, unless they're supported by tests and evidence.
In contrast, strong definitive assertions without evidence are absolutely the domain of con artists(/salespeople).