Do you think that the very intelligent people can not love any one truly?
By vijayanths
@vijayanths (7877)
India
July 19, 2009 2:05pm CST
Love is all about feelings from heart and should have no room for too many calculations using brain. If you are very intelligent you think a lot, understand about life better than average or below average persons and eventually calculate a lot in a relationship.Once you start making calculations then there can't be true love.
What do you think mylotters?
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22 responses
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
@Bishounennerd and kafros:
Intelligent people can also love truly, no doubts. When compared with the love of an ordinary person, it may be less.
Where do see high rate of divorces? cities or villages?
Educated persons go for divorce in large numbers? or uneducated?
let us think in that angle too, pals.
@BishounenNerd (373)
• United States
20 Jul 09
I totally agree with you, in fact, I would think that people who are dumb are less capable of loving because they don't have the intellectual capacity to empathize with their partner. Empathy requires intelligence, so I would say that love is a sign of intelligence, at least in the area of interpersonal relationships.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
yes, I think you rightly pointed out that their expecatations would be more-when there is more expectation there can be more disappointments- when there is disappointment there is separation. when there is separation there is less love, hehehehe.
@jbrooks0127 (2324)
• United States
19 Jul 09
I fully disagree. I see no reason at all why a person can not be intelligent and have a heart at the same time. No matter our intellectual level we are still human and we have a need for relationships and love.
Of course this is speaking in a broad sense. There are people who are so into themselves that they have no time for relationships...just to much to do and learn.
But if you could take a pole of people with a high IQ and the questions revolved around relationships and their feelings and emotions you would be surprised at the results overall.
Of course being a real dummy I would say that.
@jbrooks0127 (2324)
• United States
20 Jul 09
Well I have to disagree with the jungle thing. If I believed that I would have to give up my belief in God and that will never happen.
I am not so sure about your definition of intelligent. I agree that the more intelligent you are the more you will reason things out but that does not mean that person would have to be so into them self that they would loose all trust in another person. What you describe, at least the way I see it, is not necessarily that the person is intelligent but that they are self absorbed. To love someone, by definition, is to care for that person because of the type of person they are and not because they are subservient to you.
It does not take intelligence to be over analytical and self absorbed. Of course this is true of some intelligent people but it can describe almost anyone.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
If you are too intelligent you would become very practical. When you think a lot you can't love a person just blindly. The so called true love means simply love a person bindly as he/she is with out reasoning. Unless your partner is truly good and sacrificing you won't fall for a serious relationships.
Love consists of physical factors a lot. All people whether intelligent or not are after physical factors, after all man is a cultured animal who came from jungles.
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@strawberrychocodahi (4818)
• Philippines
20 Jul 09
No, that will never be the rule. Actually nobody is perfect. And even the most intelligent or a dumb person will certainly love a person and their level of knowledge or education has nothing to do with that.
Love doesn't need to be computed. It was more an abstract to most because they aren't certain and some define love as the most important thing that happened in their life. I did not choose my husband because he is intelligent or so, i loved him because of who he was and what he was. I don't need to think more about it since it is a feeling that needs to be nourished everyday.
A relationship is needed to grow like a plant. So you will do certain things to improve it, but that does not mean that you focus your gray matter to only attain it. Some people say that they have loved a wrong person because they did not use their head but more they used their hearts to rule. Mostly people does the same, when we are more emotional, we don't think anymore, we don't use our brain, but our heart.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
Love grows from heart, many say so.It starts from eyes(attraction)then it goes stright to heart to many. It will not go to brain at that point of time.
I think it should start from eyes. Then it should go to brain and then to heart,that is my point.
@my_name_is_coco (4333)
• Philippines
20 Jul 09
everyone has the capacity to love.even intelligent people have the capacity to love someone with all their heart.we may think that these intelligent people are very self-centered and selfish.they are really just using the logical sides of their thinking.they are factual.but it doesn't mean that they don't have emotions.
@maggiesunjuan (554)
• China
20 Jul 09
Coco, I agree with you, I think I'm very self-centered, but I do have emotions, but I feel it hard to love a man who I don't like from the first sight. So that's why I'm still single even if I've already had several bfs. But I will have to change myself in thinking and evaluating persons. I hope I could find someone to marry. :)
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
@maggie and myname:
Yes, I do agree intelligent people are also in love. Who can live with out love in this world?
I just wanted to know whether their love is less than the love of ordinary people.
@psycospaz (320)
• United States
19 Jul 09
Love is universal, however it is viewed in many different ways. A very intelligent person (and I use the word intelligent loosely) is very capable of love, although there is a direct correlation between intelligence and being self centered and narcissistic. And when a person is that full of themselves then there is no room for the love of another or to love another.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
yes, I do agree that even intelligent people are in love. But may be their love may not be that strong as the love of average or less intelligent people.
@psycospaz (320)
• United States
21 Jul 09
This is actually a really interesting topic because well, what is intelligent? Who says Who is intelligent? I have a person who is very close to my heart who claims to be the most intelligent man in the world. He is very street smart, I will give him that, and A LOT of people go to him for advice, however if he has never heard of something before, then well it doesn't exist. Some of our mutual friends call him intelligent, I call him smart and some what full of himself.
However on the flip side: Are the egg heads in nasa and people like Einstein truly intelligent or just stuck in one niche of their brains?
@coolsid2007 (1030)
• India
20 Jul 09
I totally agree with you, people who are bent on knowledge and intelligence, do tend to calculate a lot more in a relationship, as compared others.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I agree with you too fully. I was talking with all the mylotters alone so long, atlast I found two persons having similar views, hahahahaha.
@meiyeec511 (405)
• Malaysia
20 Jul 09
If the person has love in heart, no matter he/she is intelligent, I do not think he/she will calculate in the love.
It's uncountable love for everyone. I think that love will depend on 1 person's personality.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
Yes, that is ideal and theoritical.when there is love there can be no calculations and differences. But in real life we talk romantic but act practical in many aspects of love.
@abhaijith (2963)
• India
20 Jul 09
Doing Some thing or thinking some thing in a different way makes people intelligent.At that sense may be you are right and you can say the very intelligent people can not love truly, but above that all are human beings know and we all will have same feelings and emotions so i don't agree with this.Good discussion.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
yes, I think you have correctly pointed out the essemce of this discussion.
is it Vijay's picture? or you look like him?
@larish (2234)
• Philippines
20 Jul 09
I think that no matter how intelligent one person is he has still feelings that doesn't need to be feed by his mind to react. It is the nature of man to have emotions. I think that love can be felt even by the most intelligent man ever live. It doesn't need further thinking for him to feel love. It is instinct.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
yes, love is an instinct feeling. Intelligent people also can't live with out that.
@think_twice (553)
• India
20 Jul 09
I think it's true. They are somehow cruel in nature. They only love money or knowledge and so there is no place for love.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I think you are right, In many developing countries politicians purposely slowed down the education process in villages so that the people would remain ignorant. It is easy for them to get the votes from ingorant people.
@rlaknar (616)
• India
20 Jul 09
I agree with you.Doing calculations in relationship make give crazy answers and it takes the human mind to beyond the limit of creativeness and exaggerations, so it becomes the root cause of breaking in relationship.Especially in love it becomes a sensitive issue.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I at last found a mylotter agreeing with my point of view hahahahahaha. thanks for it.
I wish I am dumb in a relationship, though.
@zareenalot (66)
• India
20 Jul 09
Love is a good understanding and matured relationship between two people.It will not be correct to say that intelligent people can not love truly.Infact intelligent people can understand and feel the true meaning of love.They can think in a matured way.Love is a feeling that is close and connected to someone who we care about and think about them constantly.I think calculations cannot come in this type of feelings and relationships.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
Intelligent people love would look very attractive and intersting. they can sing, dance, share interesting things... but will it last long with the same intensity?
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
Yes, no one can live with out love as love has lust in it.
Intelligent persons are also in love, in true love too, depending upon the partners.
@frinces (433)
• Philippines
20 Jul 09
If two persons are in love, I think, there is nothing that will hinder them, not even their difference in intelligence. If lovers are expecting greater in return or if they are used of counting the amount they give to their partner, their love means conditional. I remember way back when I was in my college years, I had a companion who is very intelligent. In fact, he graduated in college with the highest honor. He used to expect much from her girlfriend. He also wants her girl to be one of the honor rolls. His girl became suffocated, cold and bitter to him. Later, their relationship did not last but they found their own partners. The girl found a less intelligent person but very thoughtful and good-looking. The guy found a girl who is a foreigner and is as intellectual as him.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I think intelligent people can also be in real love when their partners are extremely sacrificing and loving.
@SummerChick (513)
• Philippines
19 Jul 09
Hahahaha...really? But I beg to disagree my friend. All of us human beings are created with feelings and capacity to love. There is no really scientific basis that if one has a high IQ is not capable of loving someone truly. The only thing that make these people from the average loving people is that they tend to love someone more intricately rather than loving someone simply. But they do love truly.
Some famous people who have high IQ were happily married like Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, Madonna was married before (although she's now divorced), William Shakespeare, and would you believe even Confucious has a wife. If its just the capacity to love, everyone is capable intelligent or not. There is no exact known rule about loving someone.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
19 Jul 09
Summerchick, Of course most of the intelligent people are happily married. But their love to their spouses may be less than the love their spouses have on them. Most women are attracted to intelligent men, so they love more sincerely and save the marriages. Any marriage can be saved if one of the two is sacrificing and adjustable.
@Citychic (4067)
• United States
20 Jul 09
Do you think that very intelligent people cannot love anyone truly?
No Vijayanths, I do not think this is true. It's like the old saying goes. Everbody needs somebody to love.... Hee hee. Calculations must be made, even from the very beginning of the relationship. That is the only way to tell if the person is really feeling something for you and just how much they care. Happy mylot!
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I am happy that you agree frankly that you are making calculations in a relationship. Nothing wrong, I would have made such calculations too some even with out my knowledge.
We all have some expectations from others, even in relationships. many people say that if there is calculation then it is not love. even they would have chosen their partners with some expectations.
In India in villages there is more love than in cities. You know why? As long as they are ignorant cunning thoughts will not come to you. When you become more and knwoledgeble you become different.
This is a thought.
@yogambal_64 (1014)
• India
20 Jul 09
Love is a basic emotion which every living creature undergoes in this world. It has no category like very intelligent or normal intelligence etc, so far as I know. True love does not differentiate or classify anything.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I do agree intelligent people are also in true love.If their partners are loving them much more.
@cintiu0110 (26)
• Philippines
19 Jul 09
yes i also disagree about what you've said,being more intelligent doesn't mean you can less love,it's two different thing.God sets us to love and be loved,and i mean everybody here,if your to much intelligent it's for chosen one only,it's a gift from above that we have to cherish also. if this things really do happen then it's ones problem on handling his or her self.
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
I am not saying that intelligent people will never love any one. But the love of intelligent persons may not be that strong as the love of ordinary people.
@xXTrizzleXx (186)
• Jamaica
20 Jul 09
Good topic vijayanths, but I strongly disagree mostly in part due to the fact that intelligence is a very subjective aspect of one's being which up to today there is no convincing way to measure.
I believe that the very intelligent people are just as capable of loving as the "not-so-intelligent" people, the underlying factor which dictates one's capacity to love in my opinion, is kindness :)
Happy myLotting!
@vijayanths (7877)
• India
20 Jul 09
YES, xXTrizzlexx, I do agree with you that intelligent people are also capable of loving. Are they capable of loving more than ordinary people? hehehehe. just thinking...