Intelligence isn't just determined by what you know. Someone can know a lot about how heat is produced and how it's transmitted from place to place. That doesn't make him an intellectual. It makes him knowledgeable about thermodynamics and sufficiently ignorant to everything...

+158 Intelligence isn't just determined by what you know. Someone can know a lot about how heat is produced and how it's transmitted from place to place. That doesn't make him an intellectual. It makes him knowledgeable about thermodynamics and sufficiently ignorant to everything outside his particular field of expertise, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How does knowing a lot about thermodynamics imply that he's sufficiently ignorant to everything outside of his particular field of expertise?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's a general implication; it applies in most cases, if not all. Exceptions (e.g. polymaths) are in the minority. Their existence does not reduce the truth value of this post.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Tis the difference between knowledge and wisdom you speak of

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I always thought of intelligence like this. Einstein said it best when he said if you teach a fish that it can be only smart if learns too climb a tree then, it'll think its all life he is stupid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*to

by Anonymous 13 years ago

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sorry I mistyped the word "to." Just so you know, you didn't have to be an over-analytical, anonomous,douchebag who probably didn't understand the meaning of my comment.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I didn't put too* that was a different anon lol. You butchered it pretty bad I was trying to verify that it was the same quote. Also you insulted me, which means you've already lost this aruguement because that's the first thing people say when they know they're wrong :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's bullshit. Just because you're insulted by a statement, that doesn't mean the statement is wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Last time I checked I'm not a vagina cleansing device. I'm a fucking human being and deserve to be treated like one. So no, I'm not a douche.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

>a fucking human being So, slut? No surprises there. FYI, doctors recommend that people who are sexually active ("fucking") get tested at least twice a year.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nope not a slut. I was using an expletive for emphasis. Anyway you're wasting your time. I'm not a douche obviously I'm a person.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay,I messed up. To be honest, I was at mad at someone else and took it out on the first thing that got me irritated. Sorry.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wow. didn't expect that. thanks lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're welcome.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think thermodynamics is a bad example, because it's not an easy field to understand unless you are intelligent. Nonetheless, I've found that most people who know a lot about one subject in particular tend to also be knowledgeable in a variety of fields, but to a lesser degree, and that total ignorance is more common than ignorance in all fields but one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago