Are you an Intellectual? Or just Intelligent?

Being an intellectual is not about being old, wise, having a PH.D, or studying Socrates. Intellectuality is about open-mindedness and pursuit of knowledge. It is, of course, necessary to have a degree of intelligence, but they are mutually exclusive. Most intelligent people are not intellectual. Ge I, personally, am both.

I have been accused of being an intellectual before... and my vanity Love's the notion, but ultimately we must remember the words of Socrates who said, "the true mark of wisdom is knowing that we know nothing." The depressing thing about gaining more knowledge is the realization, that even collectively as a species we know almost nothing about all there is.

I'm not one to stand above my station although I've always been one who's always thought less of myself. A test at school which test our IQ came back and I was happy being one of the highest but It doesn't mean much, so I honestly don't know. Probably intelligent ~Joey

I am intelligent------- and I am old-------- What I have learned in my life is not to depend at all on those kinds of lables! Far too many who claim the former [intellectual] are without the latter [intelligence]. MHO