Knowledge and intelligence

[Woz]

I was just about to post in randomdude's topic and i hit a wall...

Basically I was wondering what the difference is (if there is one) between intelligence and knowledge. My brain is always working and i have a lot of moments of deep thought. I'm analyse everything and love to read up about culture and things that people around me think are boring. It's hard to explain.

I think intelligence is common sense/what we learn, and knowledge is wisdom and beliefs etc. Could anyone help out?

Cheers

 

[ASnowyCanadian]

Intelligence is your ability to learn, and knowledge is something that can be taught or learned sbout?

 

[9006]

What ASnowyCanadian said.

and love to read up about culture and things that people around me think are boring.

I know exactly what you mean, I've always experienced that I don't have anything in common with most people I meet.

I used to read a lot of books about things that interest me, but if I tried to talk about it, people either don't know how to respond then go silent, or get called a geek (in good humor) from friends and family.

But then if I do ever meet someone who knows about it, they're always a lot more intelligent, which is good.. I suppose.

A problem I also have is that I don't have a good memory, I like to read about things that interest me but most of the time I forget the details, I get quite frustrated by this!

 

[Rosebolt]

What ASnowyCanadian said.

and love to read up about culture and things that people around me think are boring.

I used to read a lot of books about things that interest me, but if I tried to talk about it, people either don't know how to respond then go silent, or get called a geek (in good humor) from friends and family.

But then if I do ever meet someone who knows about it, they're always a lot more intelligent, which is good.. I suppose.

A problem I also have is that I don't have a good memory, I like to read about things that interest me but most of the time I forget the details, I get quite frustrated by this!

This sounds so much like me! It's almost scary. Anyway i agree with SnowyCanadian, intelligence is the measure of how quick you learn things, your ability to store the things you learned (your knowledge), stuff like that.

 

[LonelyInAtl]

To me, knowledge is knowing facts, Intelligence is the ability to put those facts to use.