For many people, there is no difference between smart and intelligent, because the words seem to be inter changeable. However, there is a difference between the meanings and use of these words.
Smart can
be applied to learned inferences, such as making smart business or emotional
decisions. Smart is an earned status. When we study and learn, we become
smarter in the subject matter. We have to put a lot of effort to become
smarter.
While intelligence is something which you are born. Your IQ is a
measurement of your intelligence, and doesn’t change because it is a measure of
your ability to learn. This can apply to terms we chronically associate with
intelligence, like math, or it can apply to your ability to learn negotiation
of emotional issues. In either case, intelligent is inherent.
Smart can
also be applied to sarcasm. We have ‘smart alec’ answers, or we can be ‘smart’
when answering a question or talking in a conversation. We don’t apply
intelligent to the idea of being sarcastic.
Intelligent
is used as a higher level of measured intellect. We give a higher compliment
when we tell someone they are intelligent, compare when we tell them that they
are smart. Intelligence is directly related to our own degree of sophisticated
knowledge.
Intelligence also implies a certain degree of higher education.
Whether you’ve actually completed a higher education, or you have yet to do so,
we refer to intelligent people as those we assume to have completed a higher
level of education than high school. While there are those who are intelligent
who never go to college, the implication is essential when understanding the
description offered.
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