Intelligence vs Practicality?

Question:An intelligent person is someone whose main concern is LEARNING; the more he or she knows that more satisfy the intellectual will be. If you read history, you will learn that most intellectuals were not rich men and women.

However, the practical person is more concerned about making money and simply going through life without any consideration for learning or feeding the mind with thoughts beyond the ordinary person.

What do you say?

Are you an intellectual or a practical person?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: An intelligent person is someone whose main concern is LEARNING; the more he or she knows that more satisfy the intellectual will be. If you read history, you will learn that most intellectuals were not rich men and women.

However, the practical person is more concerned about making money and simply going through life without any consideration for learning or feeding the mind with thoughts beyond the ordinary person.

What do you say?

Are you an intellectual or a practical person?

Wow, I've been waiting for this question.
As you say, an intelligent person is concerned with learning, and that concern puts it in the realm of morality, e.g., doing what is right, or good, or best. But you bring to light a dichotomy, a dichotomy that is very false and very bad for humanity, making them choose between "moral" and "practical."

This dichotomy "[inculcates a] lethal tenet: the belief that the moral and the practical are opposites. Since childhood, you have been running from the terror of a choice you have never dared fully to identify: If the practical, whatever you must practice to exist, whatever works, succeeds, achieves your purpose, whatever brings you food and joy, whatever profits you, is evil—and if the good, the moral, is the impractical, whatever fails, destroys, frustrates, whatever injures you and brings you loss or pain—then your choice is to be moral or to live.
"The sole result of that murderous doctrine was to remove morality from life."

"...courage and confidence are practical necessities, [ ] courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one's own consciousness."
Galt's Speech: "For the New Intellectual"

This dichotomy declares that "...there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works..."

About getting rid of this dichotomy:
"[Man] will discard its irrational conflicts and contradictions, such as: mind versus heart, thought versus action, reality versus desire, the practical versus the moral. He will be an integrated man, that is: a thinker who is a man of action."
"For the New Intellectual," For the New Intellectual,

It actually is one of the ills of Western society, to believe one cannot be "practical" if one is "intellectual." Some smart kids in school even go so far as to look dumb so they won't be made fun of. Then after graduation, they forget to "wise back up." By then, it's too late.

Can you tell that I am both at the same time? That I have not chosen one over the other? That I do not "dumb down" my answers so that the "practical" can understand them?

Great question.

Maybe so, but a clever person does both...

Based on your definition, I am a intellectual.

Intellect drives the purpose.
Intellect sees beyond practicality.
Intellect has no concern about itself.
Practically is limited.

Wow, I just scanned the beginning and end of a really boring answer(no offense). It sounded smart though.
I'm not sure what I am. I want to finsih school and become a pediatrician or a dermatologist or something in that area, but that requires a lot of intellegence, but at the same time make a lof of mula. Could I be both?

yes, to the first answerer. the smart person never puts all his eggs in one basket. besides,"it's much harder to hit a moving target".. practical and intellectual..

I'm trying have a balance in both.

They are both essential