Do you believe beauty and brains go together?

@sharra1 (6340)
Australia
October 18, 2008 7:50pm CST
I remember when I was young reading a series of books by EE Doc Smith where he claimed that the best minds were also in the best bodies and were the most beautiful humans. I do not believe this to be true at all. I think the best brains are usually in very ordinary bodies as something is always sacrificed for one element to stand out and shine. I am not saying that brainy people cannot be pretty. What I am saying is that brilliant people are not also stunningly beautiful. History has shown us that our geniuses tend to be fairly ordinary plain people who often come from a poor background. What do you think about this? Do you think people are one or the other?
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@alienstar (5142)
• India
19 Oct 08
I don't agree that beautiful people will not have that much brains or those people who are intelligent are not extremely beautiful.People are of different characters and it definitely doesn't depend on beauty for sure.But sometimes, people do think like this when some things come true regarding such things and is understood totally
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
29 Oct 08
I did not say that intelligent people are not beautiful or that beautiful people are not intelligent, what I was talking about was that people with the most extraordinary genius intelligence do not also have the most stunningly beautiful bodies. They are much more likely to be fairly ordinary, people like Dr Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. Now it may be that people who are stunningly beautiful just do not bother to use their minds as they can make more money from their bodies. I do not know, but I doubt it. The author I was quoting was quite specific. The best brains in the best bodies.
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@soooobored (1184)
• United States
19 Oct 08
I think that when you are very attractive, less is expected of you. The less you are challenged, the less you need to rise to the challenge. Also, in the same lines, I noticed in college that in seminar groups my professor would be very unlikely to ask me any difficult questions (I was one of the more attractive women in the room). I really felt that she didn't expect anything important to come from me, and it would make me nervous to initiate discussion! In the end, I got one of three A's in the class, and a very long comment on my final paper about how she didn't expect that from me, wished I had contributed more in class, I could have helped give the class a different shape. In a way, I felt really inhibited by my appearance! I really think that people expect you to be one or the other, but rarely both.
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
19 Oct 08
Good point. When I was in school it was because I was a girl that they did not expect anything of me. I remember in maths class there were 3 girls and the teacher tried to pretend we did not exist. He felt it was not a female subject. Thanks to him it proved not to be for me but the other 2 survived much to his chagrin. I think that our society also teaches pretty women that there are ways other than education to make a living.
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@omar0913 (942)
• Legaspi, Philippines
19 Oct 08
I think if you are wise, you get more attraction, If you are beautiful physicaly but mentaly poor then you'll only recieve compliments from people who envy your beauty and from the people who only wants to have a score in you. but mixin them together sums up all my opinions. f you found your self beautiful, add your heart it will make you stand out.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
24 Oct 08
Some men like beautiful women regardless of their brains. Have you not noticed that rich ugly men tend to marry beautiful women in the hope that some of it will rub off on the children.
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• India
20 Oct 08
I too feel that the best brains have ordinary bodies. it is not that a beautiful body has no brains, but it is not correlated. Brains and circumstances in life play a great role in a person's achievement.if a beautiful person is born in a poor family and does nto get a chance to achieve anything then that person may not achieve much, but if the same person was born in a family where there was a lot of love care and opportunity, then that same person would have been a different person.
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
24 Oct 08
I am glad you can see what I am referring to. I know that there are lots of people who are smart and pretty but I have never seen a genuine genius who is also stunningly beautiful or handsome. Yes brains and circumstances play a vital role. If you are beautiful and poor so you cannot afford an education then your only option is to try and use your beauty to marry money or go into modeling or acting. A beautiful person born into a wealthy family might have a more fulfilling life or they might just waste their opportunities like Paris Hilton and spend their lives wasting their parent's money and getting into trouble.
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• United Arab Emirates
19 Oct 08
Beauty is something that has more than one definition. Beauty can be physical, Mental, Moralistic or just a nice personality don't just see people. You have to really see them.
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
24 Oct 08
Yes I agree that inner beauty is what is the most important. They say beauty is only skin deep and that is so true. I have heard some men say how disappointed they were when they dated the girl of their dreams only to discover that she was a real b*tch inside and expected to be treated like a princess. They confused outer beauty with inner beauty, the two do not necessarily go together.
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• United States
19 Oct 08
I think beauty and brains are completely separate. Any combination is possible, though very beautiful people are much more rare than average looking people, and brilliant people are much more rare than people of average intelligence, so the combination of beauty and brains would be even more rare. But it all boils down to just chance. As I said, any combo is possible, the different combinations just have different probablities.
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
1 Nov 08
I agree. I think they are quite separate and if you are very lucky you might have both, any combo is possible but it is more likely that if you excel in one the other will be missing. Oh course if your parents married because one have brains and one had beauty you might get a reasonable mix.
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• Australia
20 Oct 08
Good point. I don't often make oneline answers, but there's not a lot more to say. Lash
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
19 Oct 08
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Einstein did not seem a wonderful guy to look at such as George Clooney or Brad Pitt but he had a magnificent mind. I do share your views regarding this issue. It does not mean than brainy people cannot be beautiful too. © ronaldinu 2008
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
19 Oct 08
I quite agree that brainy people can be beautiful but often not and yet our culture praises beauty over brains all the time.
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• India
19 Oct 08
mostly not.the briny guys and gals are plain looking and the handsome men and beauties often lack in brains.rarely have I seen both go together. i think may be the maker decided that giving every thing to one person may be dangerous and end up in destroying the mankind. any way beauty is only for a few years and the more the use lesser it becomes but the brains are forever and the more the use the sharper it becomes . like the ying and yang theory !
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
1 Nov 08
Good point, it would be trouble if one person was perfect in everything and I think that they would be spoiled. I know that people with beauty that is only skin deep can be quite nasty as people.
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@ganda8831 (816)
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
Well we cant really generalize. When you're beautiful it doesnt necessarily mean that you're not smart or if you're brainy, you cant be beautiful. Because i know people who are smart and at the same time really attractive. I also know of some people who are ordinary looking and are not smart. So we cant really tell by just the outside appearance if the person is intelligent.
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
19 Oct 08
Yes it does vary which is why I found the author of the book to be incorrect since he portrayed these people as perfect, beautiful, brilliant and perfect bodies not to mention the best athletes etc.
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@rkrish (3003)
• India
20 Oct 08
Well sharra i go with the author EE Doc smit, as i am smart enought to get caught in the eyes of girls and have good brains to catch good girls too. So i could say it as 20% only get match with both but often we can find as you state as well
• Philippines
19 Oct 08
Yes, brains is required and beauty is an asset. but that didn't stop me from flirting with men. how did i get their attention if it wasn't for my flirty tactics.
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@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
19 Oct 08
You are right ..i feel that there is no connection between beauty and brain , in fact with great beauty comes a certain amount of vanity and self appreciation which can easily cloud ones intelligence...The best brains and talents came from ordinary looking beings. The 2 legendary singers from India Mohammad rafi and Lata Mangeshkar were very average looking, but when they sang they were the most beautiful people, so are all other brainy and talented people, their beauty is immense...
@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
1 Nov 08
Ah yes I forgot about other skills, there are all sorts of skills that humans can excel in like voices, creativity, and artistry. I know there are some people who are able to do more than one but I do mean excel. For one area to shine out beyond all the others something is sacrificed. Many people are pretty with a skill but most are average. Their beauty is inside and it shines forth in their voices.
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