Question of the day...

Intelligence is the capacity to gather and apply knowledge. In other words, I could pick up a book on automotive repair and teach myself how to overhaul an engine. If I do a decent job without any nuts and bolts left over, I would consider myself to be intelligent.

Common sense on the other hand is sound judgement not based on specialized knowledge. It is related more towards human experiences/events than it is on any specialized field. Hence, there is no way to apply common sense intuition towards the universe when you look at it from a subatomic level.

There is no way to totally separate one from the other imo. Todays specialized knowledge will be tomorrows common sense. That being said, there is also a noticeable lack of common sense in some really intelligent people that I know. Why that is so is probably a whole new topic by itself. ;)

Intelligence is great , but common sense is a must to get anywhere you need to be!!! :)

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Originally Posted by JLC

Yup....I'd have to go with "Common Sense" as well. Although it's not nearly so common as the name would imply.

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hahahaha i soooo agree with you! :rockon:

I'll have to go with common sense too. Common sense can help you to become intelligent, but intelligence can't always give you common sense. :)

You can be educated above or beyond your intelligence You can be too smart for your own good, but I have never heard of anyone suffering from too much common sense.

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Originally Posted by McAdry

You can be educated above or beyond your intelligence You can be too smart for your own good, but I have never heard of anyone suffering from too much common sense.

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I love it! LOL

I'd have to vote common sense as well. I think most people that have a lot of common sense are actually quite intelligent even if they are not highly educated. I think having a lot of common sense is based in some part on being intelligent and very aware. Some folks can go through life not really picking up on what is going on and learning from it, whether it's their experience or others around them. Others take that combined life experience, apply it in a myriad of ways appropriate to any situation and we call that "common sense".

As well, I think as wonderful as intelligence is, if one has no real common sense, when a situation arises that is outside of your sphere of knowledge you aren't as equipped to immediately deal with it as someone who has a lot of horse sense.

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Originally Posted by xdeus

Common sense! I've dealt with plenty of intelligent people that make me want to :slamhead: because they had no sense... common or otherwise.

However people with common sense usually have at least a modicum of intelligence to deal with.

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:sweeet::sweeet::sweeet::sweeet:

My Father-In-Law is a prime example of someone with a very high "IQ" but virtually NO common sense whatsoever. The man could go up against grand-master chess champions.....he can do NYTimes cross word puzzles in ink....he's just incredibly intelligent and it shows in his sons, too, as they are all way above average intelligence. However....I swear, it amazes me to this day that the man ever managed to live on his own and actually raise a family. I credit it all to his wife (my awesome Mom-In-Law!)...who's both smart AND sensible.


I love the man dearly....but he sometimes makes my head want to explode with his utter lack of sense.

Can't get by without common sense.:colbert: :colbert:

That sounds exactly like my dad Judy.. he's incredibly intelligent but he can't figure out how to change the channel on the TV without asking us first. Drives my mom and I nuts sometimes.