I suggest to put up a poll as well...........
Did I miss something Ridox?
I thought I already had.
Intelligence is more important.
At this point in time it's really hard to argue with the poll. So you're right.
It's hard to get a job with intelligence though, people hire knowledge.
Or hire people with intelligence and give them knowledge.
Isn't it the same thing
? I feel knowledgeable, but not intelligent... so knowledgeable, I guess.
Dean - you feel knowledgeable . . . what does that mean? A feeling of . . superiority? Or relief at being strong mentally? Or . . comfortable . . . about . . (Am I diging too deep?
Who needs knowledge? We have Wikipedia. 
Knowledge is having a vast library of books at your disposal when faced with a difficult question.
Intelligence is knowing which book to consult to answer it.
What Einstein said, though not in the same words.
This. I was going to post another description, but that sums it up nicely. I would like both in varying measures, dependant on circumstance.
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This is an interesting thought - a factor in the springboard for this discussion.
Especially in this day and age when everything is a google search away and we all have smart phones, intelligence is far more important.
One has to know how to intelligently tap this knowledge, though, right?
I voted that they are the same. Depends on how you look at it. Good question though. Intelligence comes from knowledge though. You have to know things to be looked at as smart.
I should have voted for knowledge. Oh well.
So there you are. You are one of the 8 people at this point in time that voted they are the same. You are in a minority. But a very healthy minority. See - when we ignore people like you (even if applied in a racial or cultural context) we ignore a very important and quite large (almost 25%) part of the population. At least the population on GTPlanet anyway.
We're listening. Say your piece, and persuade us, or at least provoke us to think further than we have for now.
They are not the same thing. Intelligence is the ability to think, knowledge is the ability to remember. I have met doctors with an incredible ability to remember disease names, drug names, facts about diseases, treatment procedures, etc. etc. a vast array of facts at their fingertips, but who weren't all that bright.
By contrast, Bill Gates didn't even finish college, but he was a bright dude who understood logic. He may not be able to recite historical facts or the names of french painters, but he was able to apply his raw intelligence to create something nobody else had created.
Nail on the head as usual, Danoff.
The line between the two is blurred as well.
Very. Approached from either end, suddenly we are in the miasma of trying to understand understanding using understanding.
I experienced this over and over in real life. It has brought me to think that as much as there are various types of knowledge there exist as many types of intelligence.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Intelligence is not putting it into a fruit salad.
Zing.
I would take intelligence and make my own knowledge.
We are all doing this to some extent all the time. Does this make us more intelligent?
Intelligence is what moves us forward. Intelligence innovates and creates. Knowledge is merely what we already know.
Is intelligence the driving power behind creativity? For innovation, for invention, yes, intelligence would be the drive . . . but creativity is more so connected with imagination, isn't it?
We actually need knowledge. Synthesis still requires that we can hold concepts and data in our heads to manipulate them.
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This is my problem, in particular. My memory is terrible. That's why, even with an IQ of 130-140, I had trouble with pre-med courses which required a lot of rote memorization.
Knowledge is the data - it's the memory of the processor that is important in the storage and retrieval process - which makes computers seemingly more intelligent than us. In reality they are just knowledgeable - as knowledgeable as we can program them, anyway.
And,
niky, what about other recall - memories of images, dreams, feelings . . where does this feature in recall/data storage?
Pfftt.. who needs those when you can be really strong.
Strength, to me, is another form of knowledge. Bench-pressing, for instance, gives you the knowledge of how strong you are. Or how strong you can get, etc.
Interesting you should create this thread, because I also have been contemplating the difference between intelligence and knowledge.
I've been thinking about this because I was trying to figure out whether A+ students are intelligent or knowledgable. I dare say that many of the A+ students in my school are not too intelligent. Yes you know a lot of things but that doesn't mean you know how to use your knowledge.
Just because one is knowledgable doesn't mean they are intelligent, and just because one is intelligent doesn't mean they are knowledgable.
Yup. High school can be murder, sometimes, eh? Treading through the knowledgeable and looking for the kind of intelligences you would like to bond with can be a nightmare. And so on as we get into the workforce, and so on.. . .
The first thing that came to my mind was that serial killers/ psychopaths have been known to be super intelligent, yet have no 'moral knowledge' of right and wrong which seems to be what makes them the way they are.
Surely knowledge is just knowing something either empirical or innate where as intelligence would be the way this knowledge is used? Yes?...No?....Maybe?...I don't know. Can you repeat the question?
Shemmy - I'm already late - got to run pick up a kid from school - but I'll be back to talk on this; you've opened up a fine kettle of fish as usual.
Thanks kikie, that's an interesting sidebar discussion.
We
will be discussing more about knowledge as well, though, and it's relation to intelligence.
Even knowledge evolves. And intelligence mutates.
More later.
Harry.
