Poll: Knowledge or Intelligence

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Windown95

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I was wondering if there is a difference about knowledge or intelligence, I think knowledge is if you know a lot of things, but intelligence is the ability to comprehend and put together information. Personally I think intelligence is better, because anyone can gain knowledge, but almost knowone can gain intelligence.(except if you collect a bobble head in the wasteland to increase your intel skill by 1) sorry just had to put a fallout reference in.
 

luckycharms8282

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I've always thought that they're the same thing. There is a difference between, say knowledge/intelligence and wisdom, however.
 

SimuLord

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Intelligence drives knowledge---the more of the former you have, the more readily you can accumulate the latter.

Intelligence that isn't used, and languishes in ignorance, is just plain unforgivable.
 

BioHazardMan

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I would rather have common sense and deductive reasoning over extensive knowledge, thank goodness I have some of both.
 

xdom125x

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I thought the difference was that "wisdom intelligence is knowing what to do with knowledge". You know, like street smart is to book smart.
 

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I would define intelligence as the ability to reason and arrive at conclusions and opinions in a logical manner. It means understanding, and an ability to work with data.

Knowledge, I think, is just a collection of facts or ideas. You didn't arrive at them yourself, you just have them, and you need intelligence to apply them in a constructive manner.

So knowledge is the substance of rational thinking, intelligence is the ability to use and apply it.

Edit: ...which is why I chose intelligence. Also, I consider wisdom to be a different thing entirely, something more broad and concerned with ethics and philosophy. I wouldn't equate it with knowledge or intelligence. I'd define as something more like maturity that comes from worldly experience.
 

Mumonk

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If I could only have one, then knowledge, cause you can go through life without being very intelligent. Just look at Glenn Beck =P
 

AvsJoe

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Knowledge without intelligence has little use outside of Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit. I'd much rather be intelligent than knowledgeable if given the choice.
 

Zigot66

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Knowledge is what you know, so information. Intelligence is the ability to process information in different ways. Information is useless, even dangerous without intelligence, where intelligence without information tends to not exist for too long because anyone who is intelligent will find information naturally.

It should also be pointed out, before it comes up too much, that wisdom is a sort of mix of the two, that is, the result of processing information so it can be used to judge other information more effectively.
 

FalloutJack

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Suffice to say, the english language is such that many words can actually bleed over into the meaning of others even if they're not direct synonyms. Suffice to say, things that are intrinsically linked like knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, street smarts, common sense, horse sense, education, academics, understanding, and generally being savvy and clever...are all as important as each other, as I see it.
 

Luke5515

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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Intelligence is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.
 

Windown95

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xdom125x said:
I thought the difference was that "wisdom intelligence is knowing what to do with knowledge". You know, like street smart is to book smart.
(sic) humor said:
I would define intelligence as the ability to reason and arrive at conclusions and opinions in a logical manner. It means understanding, and an ability to work with data.

Knowledge, I think, is just a collection of facts or ideas. You didn't arrive at them yourself, you just have them, and you need intelligence to apply them in a constructive manner.

So knowledge is the substance of rational thinking, intelligence is the ability to use and apply it.

Edit: ...which is why I chose intelligence. Also, I consider wisdom to be a different thing entirely, something more broad and concerned with ethics and philosophy. I wouldn't equate it with knowledge or intelligence. I'd define as something more like maturity that comes from worldly experience.
Exactly What I think, but i think if you a have intelligence you typically have some knowledge
 

higgs20

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in an ideal world intelligence would be more important, in our world you're judged more on knowledge.
 

Deh Zebra

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I say both, becuase they are pretty useless without each other. You need intellect to use the knowledge you'll obtained, but you also need knowledge to have something to analyze or comprehend! So , I think they go hand-in-hand together.
 

TWRule

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If you don't have intelligence (taken here in the sense of operations of one's faculties to bring about understanding), you don't even have the criteria by which to determine what constitutes knowledge, so the former is clearly more important than the later.
 

Paksenarrion

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"Wisdom is only possessed by the learned."

"These walls contain the world's knowledge."

"My old tavern's as clean as an Elven arse!"
 

SckizoBoy

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I chose intelligence, but given the choice of intelligence and wisdom... that's a very difficult choice.

Anyway:

Knowledge is being aware of the 'what'
Intelligence is being aware of 'how' to use and obtain aforementioned 'what'
Wisdom is being aware of 'why' and 'when' to use 'what'

There are overlaps, of course, but plain knowledge by itself is nigh on useless (and I don't mean to be disrespectful of him, but Kim Peak may well be the best human encyclopaedia, but have him give a lecture on the applications of any of his knowledge, and he's stuck, Asperger's gets you increased knowledge intake but no means of interpreting or analysing it). Therefore, wisdom begets intelligence, and intelligence begets knowledge (debatable).

But then, I, like the rest of humanity, am an idiot.