A or B: Which form of intelligence do you respect most?

Question

Or in other words, which do you think is most important?

(A) A person with endless book knowledge and no common sense.
(B) A person with endless common sense and no book knowledge.

Answer 1

B) common sense. One can learn to read and garner knowledge from books, but common sense seems to a form of intelligence that cannot be taught

Answer 2

I'd say none. There always should be a balance.

After all, I wouldn't take "common sense" and "book knowledge" as 2 mutually exclusive concepts. I believe book knowledge is supposed to help us gain better understanding of common sense or that knowledge is nonsense.

Answer 3

Well for some reason I am more attracted to those who have more book knowledge, but I respect people with more common sense. Perhaps it is because I am like that... no common sense AT ALL.

Answer 4

B. A person can not learn everything in life from a book. However! If they had true common sense, they would pick up the occassional book to expand and educate - i mean, that would be common sense!

Answer 5

A combination of both. People who have no common sense are boring, but so are people who have no book knowledge.

Answer 6

As you said, (B) has common sense, not common intelligence. (A) has book knowledge, not book intelligence. Both are hardly "intelligent", perhaps smart, but not intelligent.

Answer 7

I'd respect A more as that person has gone to the effort to learn something. Not everyone can do that!

Answer 8

B The ancient greeks had a name for it-Metis. It's what made their heroes, heroes.

Answer 9

i pick A because i think common sense is over rated.

Answer 10

Gotta go with B