If someone calls you "highly knowledgeable" what do they mean?

Question

Obviously, it refers to smarts. I'm looking for a philosophical discussion here. What's the difference between knowledge and intellect? Like what's the difference between highly intelligent and highly "knowledgeable"?

Answer 1

Depends on what field of knowledge they are referring to. Its assumed that if your highly knowledgable, that you're a gun at school work... but that may not be the case. I cant see how a genius can ride a skateboard, or how a cashier is able to perform brain surgery.

But basically, they are saying that you have information pertaining to a certain field of knowledge that is far greater than your average chump.

Intellect, in my opinion, just means sticking your guns to maths, physics, and stuff like that where as knowledge is more general aptitude, more worldy stuff.

Answer 2

I think experience is the difference between intellect and knowledge. A quite young person can be called "smart as a whip," but it is the older person who is called "highly knowledgeable," or that's the way I think it should be.

Answer 3

"In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king".

Think about it like this:

You can play chess, pretty well but not brilliantly.

To someone who deosn't play chess you are highly knowledgeable about chess.

To a chess Grand Master you know nothing.

The reason for this is twofold; you know how to play chess but not as well as a Grand Master but, more significantly, as you know how top play chess you know how much more there is to learn about the game.

The person who has never picked up a pawn in their life will think you know everything about it - simply because with the information they have they can form that opinion.

So, only by uncovering knowledge can you truly understand how much more there is to learn - on any subject. A wise man doesn't so much know everything, more that a wise man understands that knowing that you know effectively nothing is the key to knowledge.

Answer 4

First it probably means that the person is trying to impress you for some reason.

As for knowledge If refers to book smarts or what you have been able to remember.

Intelligence is ones ability to use what they have learned to benefit themselves in the day to day situations that confront them in their lives.

If it can not be used to assist us in life knowledge amounts to little more than trivia.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

That means you are psychic.Because knowledge is psychological result of learning & reasoning. Intellect is the creative idea of mind & discriminative capacity

Answer 6

it means that you know a variety of things on a wide range of topics and you can remember them and store them in your long term memory so that when a time comes for a very intellectual discussion you get to converse in a 'highly knowledgeable' way. =)

Answer 7

I'm highly knowledgeable, only I am just a wealth of usless information.

Answer 8

that means you're very smart/intelligent and that knowledge is based on your level of intelligence based on knowledge acquired from good foundation of education and life experiences too where you deal with matter/idea/situation/opinion basing from facts proven.

Answer 9

They're acknowledging your command of the facts, possibly the theories as well, in a given area. They're not admitting you're smart, just insinuating it.

Answer 10

Knowledgeable says that you know the facts.

Intellectual says that not only do you know the facts but you can decifer them, understand them and live them I guess