Smart or Intelligent: Which trait has more substance?

  • Smart
  • Intelligent
Please select one to answer and see the result

Answers

Smart - 15Intelligent - 13
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
To be smart one must go beyond just being intelligent; we must use our senses as well as our life experience for the myriad situations we encounter in day to day life .
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because being smart means one has used its inherent intelligence to learn. One can be intelligent, but not smart. But one can't be smart without intelligence.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I would rather be a quick thinker and be able to choose my decisions wisely than to only be extremely intelligent.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Smart is the ability to apply intelligence in a practical way.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Smart is doing. Intelligent has capacity to do.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because it included intelligence. Intelligence, from reading above, is the receiving of information and the capacity to understand the information received where as smart is the applying of the received information which involves capacity to analyze and apply the information received.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I'm intelligent.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because in a nutshell, smart involves being clever as well. Whereas, intelligence is just the ability to learn and understand.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Intelligent is knowing and/or holding facts...
Smart is the appilication of those intelligent facts that have a benefit attached to them...
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because everyone has intelligence but is much harder to learn to be smart
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
smart is something a person learned as he goes thru life, it is not something inherent.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it entails an evolutionary process not simply a starting point
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Smartness involves higher cognitive functioning. It involves more processing of information, analysis, relating and finding patterns in knowledge.

I would see intelligence as more of an ability to learn or memorise something, but less interactive in how that information is used.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Smart because even if your intelligent and you are not able to apply it, it is exactly stated above that intelligence is capable of learning, understanding, using reason, with new situations around them

i will give you an example, your in a room (with a big space) = this is the intelligence.

And you are equip with such tools to use inside your room = this is smart
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Intelligence requires less maintance than those who are trying so hard to achieve.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
intelligent is a higher compliment than smart. it says that a person has a higher level of thought, reasoning, problem solving, and ability to learn. Like IQ tests. They can learn high level math, physics, reading, etc.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Being SMART requires motive to apply INTELLIGENCE. SMART is per application of INTELLIGENCE.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Adaptability to new and unusual situations, ingenious in figuring solutions to new problems.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
think v. know
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Intelligence provides an advantage to learning and understanding new information.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Well some one who may be smart is someone who's quick with whit or sarcasm ( they have something to prove.) An intelligent person is some who's sure of themselves and has nothing to prove and deals with others in a kind way
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
One can be smart, having gained knowledge, however this does not imply intelligence. Intelligence, as I see it, is the ability to take that learned knowledge and experience and use it to the best of your ability, making choices and taking actions based on that knowledge.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
People who are intelligent have good judgement and an overall understanding of things.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
intellegents is the act of understanding,Smart sometimes called shrewd in which the act of taking advantage of another by manipulation, is dis honest, there fore bieng intelligent is forseen the act of bieng dishonest has more substance. We can do better by understanding than cheating.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
BCZ WITHOUT INTELLIGENT THERE IS NO MEAN OF SMARTNESS
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I think of Albert Einstein as an intelligent scientist rather than a smart guy.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Without the ability to reason being smart loses it's effectiveness.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Intelligence is what we were all born with ,unfortunately in various degrees. Smart is what we have actually learned and in how we have committed that to our memory

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