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Originally Posted by Relentless
Intelligent = Someone who knows that people capable of doing something matter more than people capable of thinking about something
Intellectual = Someone capable of thinking about something
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well that's a pretty unintelligent summation, intellectual thought and development has as much impact on how we live as technology does. science developed from natural philosophy. philosophers and intellectuals are dangerous because they can have great influence on lesser intellectuals, those people who are 'capable of doing something', can do a lot of damage or good.
i think the greatest scientists in history have also been highly intellectual, though not as gifted in language, which is the intellectual's tool of his trade.
The world is becoming more filled up with pseudo-intellectuals thanks to the Internet. Reading and becoming familiar with the ideas of intellectuals doesn't make one an intellectual himself no more than somebody who loves music, studies it and can understand it is a musician.