Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.
When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.