I think that the ability to see things from more than one angle is a type of intelligence, but it does not define "intelligent" as a whole. I do see this ability as the trait of a "deep" thinker and as a step toward wisdom.




The Japanese consider the Americans as the aggressors in WWII. Julius Caesar wrote accounts of the Celts/Druids that people accept without considering that the Celts were Caesar's enemies.

Grasshopper Okami04, you take a step toward wisdom.

Everyone is a deep thinker in their own rights, the subject matter varies from person to person. Generally were only going to engage in subjects that interest us...and that has nothing to do with intelligence.

(From my profile on another dating site; the bold part is the straight man, it is given by the site to everyone who signs up.)

The first things people usually notice about me: My deep thoughts. Some people drop coins and little pebbles into it, to see how long it takes before they hit the bottom.

someone who is deep usually expresses ideas in a certain way that makes me people ask more questions

Socratic method for example

but Inteligence is more than the 9types if you ask me
and Wisdom there are many types
Philosophical Wisdom, Wisdom gained by age and life experiences.


I know when to act on Instinct and when to use thought processes to solves problems

I think I am wise for my age because I have seen and experienced a lot but I a smart enough to realize that I haven't even began to scratch surface

I believe it take a Deep person to wrap there head and foll the Tao
and I am a Taoist but that's just me

Intelligence is the useful application of knowledge.

This is true of the artist, the programmer, and the philosopher.

It is also the creation of new knowledge.

If you ask for a second opinion, I answer that people think of me more readily as a talkative person, than as a deep one.

I am also very short... 5'4". Does that make me deep? As in "least tall".

People who know me will tell you guys that I don't take myself seriously at all. You like that. But what you won't like is that I take others even less seriously (if that's humanly whatsoever possible.)

For instance, I like to scream at policemen and strangle physicians with their sthetoscopes.



This has been my favourite so far, whoever said this. I only saw it quoted here by a chick. I don't know. Did somebody actually say this?

I agree.

I imbue my children with, and pass down to them, as much of my knowledge as I can.

I start each lesson, "little buggers, if you don't shut yer clappers right now, I'll slap you into next Tuesday."

That's useful knowledge. Something they can apply.

(Sorry. I just noticed. I am getting into that "mood". I shut up and exit and maybe watch, but don't let me post any more tonight, please.)

No, they aren't. This goes along with the idea that everyone has a talent or gift of something that they do well.

Not everyone does.

Hmmm. Does the depth of a belly button correlate with the amount of lint?

I agree, I would posit that creating knowledge today requires the useful application of previously gained knowledge.

Upon the shoulders of Giants.

I think that falls under one's individual view of deep. As an example, I know folks who can rattle on about about guns, from the littlest nit-picking thing to the wider scheme and abilities. In all honesty, there is a great amount of depth and knowledge both with regards to that.

I'm willing to acknowledge that, even though I might be bored to stupidity and wishing to use their gun to blow my brains out over the (to me) tediousness of the discussion.

But I also think that everyone does have their own talents or gifts, even if it is a little thing and doesn't affect a huge amount of others.

I don't consider myself a deep thinker. I do consider myself insightful. I have numerous opinions on the state of the world and how we got there, but few on legitimate ways to fix it.

Personaly I think being deep means you have an VERY open mind and u see things from many perspectives because of it.....pretty much meaning we are willing to explore/go down the "rabbit hole" where others try to bury it....

I agree. Deep thinking is not that much different from a deep throat. You put things in there; mull it about, and then regurgitate some stuff, while you internalize some others of this stuff.

Depth of soul or throat means you have or are able to develop and ability what and when to spit out, and what and when to internalize.

If only Darwin thought about that... evolution would look totally differnt in our eyes today.

To a man an ocean is deep. To an amoeba a spittle on the sidewalk is deep.

"Deep" is relative. Every thing and body has a different depth-perception.

To an electron an amoebe-spittle is deep.

This is a field of thought that has depth.

The field of depth is a depth of field.

The more I say "depth" the more I think of my poor ole' Ma, who used to spit out tiny little bits of tobacco, coz in those days in my country cigarettes had no filters.

I dunno, my knowledge base doesn't encompass belly button lint. Is your theory that the deeper the navel, the more lint, or vice-versa?

Gwenny, you ask the most confounding questions. The one here above, with the lint: Socrates broke his famous flute in his anger when he could not find a conclusive answer to this, Confucius changed his original, god-given name, Cassius Clay, to Confucius because he was unable to get anywhere with it, Kant replied by shooting his games warden without even as much as ein Wort gesprochen, and Bertrand Russel told Wittgenstein straight to F. himself o. when Wittgenstein asked him this very question in the middle of a fashion show the two were attending together in Paris.

Indeed it does. A rolling stone (extruded belly button) gathers no moss (lint could be expressed as mosslike of a sort) and the deeper the pit the harder to fish out the fallen ones.

Some people get so deep in thought they lose sight of their social obligation to communicate with others.

I feel deep thought is when you are thinking outside of yourself.
shallow thought is thinking how everything applies to me me me.

intelligence is questionable in most cases and relative to survival in the environment it is trying to live in.