Does intelligence matter to you?

One of my friends, she's not the brightest light out there (I love her but it's like that), and it's frustrating sometimes to have someone who can't quite keep up with the same pace as yourself. I want to be able to communicate with someone on the same level or it just doesn't really work, haha I'm kind of a snob in that. Also there's a big difference between intelligence and knowledge.
 
My immediate thought was they should be intelligent, but I have a couple friends who I consider pretty dumb and I still enjoy them. Overall I'd pick people who are street smart over book smart any day. I've met too many praised book smart people who are really thick as **** as they say.
 
Definitely. More so with romantic relationships than with friendships, though. With friends I really just look for someone who somewhat understands me. (That said, I can't tolerate really stupid people.)

But when it comes to a boyfriend, he'd better be wicked smart. I just wouldn't want to be with someone who wasn't at least as smart as I am. I don't think I could take it. xD Which is probably why I don't have a boyfriend.
 
Hmm. Well yes and no, it's not a deal breaker for me but I'd much rather be friends with someone who I could actually have somewhat intelligent conversations with - Because while that airhead stupidity thing is cute at first it's so annoying after a while..
I suppose intelligence is important if you're going to be a close friend. Yet I have a stupid stupid stupid friend and she's so stupid it's just ugh really and I love her so much so maybe it's not. As long as we can have a conversation and understand what one another is saying I don't care.
 
If I can hold an intellectual conversation with someone, then I don't have a problem. Like a lot of people said, intelligence is hard to measure. I don't go by the IQ of someone, because not everyone is smart enough in math or in English or whatever else they use to determine someone's IQ. There are other ways people can be smart - they can be philosophically smart, they can be artistically smart, they can be street smart, and so on and so forth. If someone's at least one of those things (maybe not street smart, that does't matter to me all that much), then I'd like to say that I'd like to be their friends. Of course, personality has a lot to factor into it. I'd rather be friends with someone who is incredibly kind and caring who happens to be really rather unintelligent than someone who's extremely intelligent who happen to have a superiority complex about them with poor inter-personal skills. That being said, philosophically and artistically smart people are people I'm most interested in.
 
I prefer intelligent people. They seemed to me quite a nice lot with such nicer things to say. They know what they are talking about, and always loves a good debate. Unlike others who only wanted their own ways.
 
I prefer logicality and reason, which I assume by extension follow intelligence. I define intelligence as someone who possesses common sense, righteousness, and logic rather than as someone who is 'smart'; so I pick social-smart. Book-smart individuals, without social experience and communication, can be limited in general conversations. If someone is both, then that would be the definition of 'perfection in society' in my standards.
 
In all honesty, I prefer my friends to be quite intelligent. When it comes to relationships or deeper, that doesn't matter anymore. As long as they know the difference between right and wrong, basics of math and science, and have quite good grades, they pass. I noticed that the more intelligent may act more....serious, yet they do care much more and have a pretty good taste.
 
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