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RE: Intellect and Wisdom - 8/3/2005 3:56:01 AM

Padriag

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Simplest defintion I ever heard was this...

Intelligence is knowing smoking is bad for you, Wisdom is the ability to quit.

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A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel so that it may be very kind - Edmund Spencer

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RE: Intellect and Wisdom - 8/3/2005 11:03:41 AM

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Isn't that from Dungeons & Dragons?

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RE: Intellect and Wisdom - 8/3/2005 11:08:54 AM

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We're getting into some fuzzy semantic territory here, but in my mind "intellect" is a lot closer to "intelligence" than to "intellectual." "Intellect" is usually defined as the ability to think and reason, which anyone can possess, whether educated or not, whether intellectual or not. I usually think of "intelligence" as something much broader than that, since there has to be something like musical intelligence, artistic intelligence, even emotional intelligence--and those things are not directly related to one's ability to think and reason.

To be an "intellectual," on the other hand, I think you do have to place an emphasis on education, especially of a formal kind, and on participation in high culture. I can't really imagine an illiterate intellectual, for example. I don't think you need to be exceptionally intelligent to be an intellectual (believe me, I know some stupid ones), and you certainly don't need to be an intellectual in order to be intelligent.

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I don't believe you need to read books to be intelligent.

Something I notice often that being intelligent is linked to intellect - which IMO isnt true.

Intellect is a process. You could read all the books in the world, know all the knoweldge and be intellectually minded, but that doesn't mean you are intellegent, just intellectual.

I think that being intellectual stops you from being able to see past the information gained vicariously. It has no compassion, it is cold and cannot feel or project any emotion. Intellect cannot understand emotion at all and therefore cannot utilize it. There is no intellegence other than being able to read - intellegence is not needed to be intellectual. And Intellect wishes no other subject to asist it, not even wisdom.

Wisdom is compassionate and emotional. But to use wisdom, one must also understand intellect. Wisdom is used by the intellegent because they see where intellect can fail. But the intellegence used to embrace wisdom isn't intellectual, but personal.

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RE: Intellect and Wisdom - 8/3/2005 3:21:57 PM

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That is exactly what I said and meant LaM - I think that intellect and intellegence are completely seperate, and need to be addressed as so - I was just picking up on your previous comment concerning blackwolf, which hinted to me that you either misunderstood his post, or viewed intellect and intelligence as the same, was all. I was just offering an observation - rightly or wrongly.

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