What would you rather be? Intelligent or smart?

Who's to say they don't run hand in hand? If intelligence is inborn and smart is affected by experience and can be learned. I think one may help the other one. Intelligence may help us pick up on things and be smart. Where if we didn't have the intelligence to start out with it would take us longer to become smart. So I would like to have alittle of both!

I hope you don't mind me saying but you are putting up your br too soon.If people see a br they don't always answer.You will earn more if you leave it a week.Not having a go just trying to help you as you seem quite new to this.

I would rather be smart because as you say not all intelligent people are smart and can be real dumb when they are not around maths . I would much rather being smart because I can adopt to any situation and dominate in things you are good at if your smart enough . People will treat you better because you can relate more effective with people .

I wish my English was good enough to choose. As it is, I know that I have a big IQ because I have been measured. And life makes you smarter and I`m an ol` witch. But what I would like to be is what my late husband was: wise. That, for me, is a lot more important than being intelligent or smart.

honestly i think they work hand in hand i say this from personal experience i find that i was born with a certain amount of knowledge within but i also find that i absorb knowledge with ease (that is if it interest me) from my day to day life

i go for being smart. i believe that a smart person can do much than an intelligent person. smart people will just hire intelligent people to do their job. and this is what happening all around us. numerous intelligent people like programmers and engineers are just sitting on a chair making doomsday missile for his smart president.

I think being smart has definatetly helped me through life.Knowing when to bow out and when to stand my ground.I have a good amount of common sense which seems to illude my intelligent friends.I am not knocking them they are nice people after all but sometimes I am glad I am thick.

Yes, I agree. Wise is very good. It is another dimension of smart and intelligent. I believe that wisdom, unlike intelligence or smartness, comes more with age and observation. If being smart is knowing what to do in a certain situation then that also comes with age, but not always. Because you may have seen, heard or experienced more at, say 35 than at 18. So, hopefully, as you grow you become smarter. I feel I have a certain amount of wisdom. I -think- I'm kinda smart (although it doesn't always show ;-) ). I would choose intelligence.

I think I'd like to be intelligent because I can still easily learn to be smart in time if I work it out. With intelligence as being inborn, it can not be learned by anyone but one can be seasoned by experiences to become smart...