The difference between smart, clever, intelligent and wise

Ratna Srivastava
R Blogs
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5 min readDec 17, 2023

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Intelligence has interesting categories

Let us suppose intelligence is like a plant. The bigger the plant the higher it reaches, the wider it encompasses, the deeper it penetrates, the bigger purposes it serves.

The same could be said about intelligence. The more one has, the higher, wider and deeper it reaches, the more complex functions it performs, the more questions it raises, the more answers it seeks, and the more intricate it gets.

Roughly speaking human intelligence could be given these categories:

1. Normal

We don’t know. But we don’t know that we ‘don’t know’. We think we know all that there is to know. This is the defining characteristic of this level of intelligence. Our life begins and ends at knowing proudly that ‘we know’ when we actually do not. Most of us will fight tooth and nail just to prove that we know. We have enough brains to get by; we don’t need more and we don’t use more (even when we are given more from external source!).

2. Knowledgable

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Ratna Srivastava
R Blogs

Author of Emit Eht (Science-Fiction/Metaphysical and Visionary Romance) Children’s Author, Thinker, Philosopher. Editor R Blogs, R Quotes.