What is the line between intelligence and arrogance?

I feel as I gain more wisdom, I tend to be more arrogant and cynical. I hate being rude and arrogant, but I'm also aggitated by ignorance, so I come off cynical and arrogant. So what is the line between intelligence or wisdom (you can pick one) and arrogance. Arrogance comes in when you care more about the fact that you know something that others may not and even more about making sure others know you know it then the information itself.

You cannot assume that people know. Like Ben Franklin said, "Common sense is not so common". Even back in the 1700's, people understood that there is a disparity between those that educate themselves and those who are happy to just exists.

It is just the natural order of things. Find ways to humble yourself and learn to help bring others up to your level, don't dumb yourself down or lower the bar. Society does better with the majority population being more educated than less. Actual intelligence is understanding who one is in actuality beyond this material body and mind. Ignorance is thinking we are this material body IE Race, color, nationality, Religion, Job, mind, intellect etc. Intelligence is understanding this material world is not our real home and is temporary and full of misery. Ignorance is thinking this place is all in all. Intelligence is understanding our eternal relationship with The Absolute Truth God who is the source of all intelligence also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, Rama, etc. Ignorance is denying the supremacy of God. Everything else can be realized by realizing who we are in relationship to God. That is real intelligence and the rest is Maya (Illusion) which is ignorance.

Joseph Chilton Pearce in "The Biology of Transcendence" fairly explains. First, the heart's love is an electromagnetic field about 1,000 times greater than the head's mentation.

Second, the heart's emf is vastly more flexible and able to meet life's changing patterns.

Third, those who permit their heart to guide their head are more whole, even healthier. Http://www.heartmath.org has some research on this as well.

The tendency to polarize between animal house and nerd is a common one in humanity. The way forward is love, preferably divine love (as in Kierkegaard's "Religious/Spiritual sphere"). This flexibly unifies both body and mind, as childlike inner sense, innocence, love of the beautiful, the good, and the true.

Intelligence is this in-telling, in-tuition (paying attention), which is the love of wisdom, wise dominion--philosophia able to recognize God, Plato's highest goal of philosophy.

The only valid type of criticism is Constructive criticism; being truth in love, this builds, gently, for those able or willing to receive right steps.

Most social friction and pain is built through misuse of the spoken word. Hence, a brief pause before even thinking to condemn or criticize anyone is very worthwhile.

"Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, "Watch Your Dreams" and "Men in White Apparel," "Psychoenergetic Science," Dr. William Tiller, http://www.tiller.org "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, "The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com "A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov, "The Field," Lynne McTaggart, "Mindset," Carol Dweck, Ph.D., and "Extraordinary Knowing," Elizabeth Mayer, Ph.D. offer insight into this dynamic. "Mindset" is particularly good, re stultification of intellection per egoistic need to protect reputation as a "wise guy."

cordially,

j.

One shares the benefits of one's intelligence; one inflicts arrogance upon others.

If people don't want to talk to you anymore, and you are intelligent, you have probably crossed that line.

Learning is the line between intelligence and arrogance.... so long as you know there is more to learn and are therefore willing to learn, there is little likelihood of any arrogance.... once arrogance is embraced, the learning slows down and ultimately even stops.

Try to remember that you did not always know so much. Every person learns at a different rate and often at different times in their lives.
Intelligence and wisdom are two very different things. Intelligence is knowledge. Wisdom is common sense.

Humility, self-knowledge, and awareness of the limits of all human knowledge.

Arrogance is where you think you are right and thinking that gives you some sort of superiority over others. Intelligence is knowing you are right, without having to remind others of it incessantly. That knowledge means you have less to feel insecure about so you don't need to necessarily make others feel lesser for not knowing. Yes arrogant people can be intelligent, but more often than not they have an inherent insecurity which detracts from that intelligence.

I can pick only one? In the future you may have more choices. Hopefully! Perhaps including the word humble.
How can you be wise without being humble?
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arrogance is thinking you know all the answers
intelligence is being open to new views, and knowing that theres more than one way to solve a problem or answer a question.

If you are feeling arrogant and cynical then you are not gaining in wisdom.

Intelligence, without wisdom, makes one arrogant and cynical because it makes one feel superior.

Wisdom, on the other hand, doesn't need.

The line, as you put it, is your mind.

Knowledge, Intellegence, and then Wisdom. When people come to you for answers, then you will be wise enough to shrug off ignorance. That is wisdom.

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arrogance is thinking you are intelligent and making sure everybody knows it.
intelligence is accepting you are not "that" intelligent and making sure everybody respects that.

The "line" is...

1. Impoliteness (just because they're a "Gomer Pyle/Forrest Gump Jughead" is no reason to be impolite...sometimes their ignorance is a "learning disability" or "lack of a proper education" which wasn't their fault...very few people on the planet "choose" to be that way...it's genetic...and they're limited in not only their responses...they're limited in what they can do to correct that "jugheadedness..."

2. Rudeness (see #1...no reason to be rude about your superior intellect and education...)

3. Lack of compassion, sympathy, or mercy for their jugheadedness...

Those are the lines...

My husband and son are both quite intelligent, so I have some practical experience with this subject.

When he was a teen, I found it necessary to tell my son that his being smart doesn't make me stupid. Just because he knew a lot of things I never learned didn't exclude the possibility that I might understand things he didn't yet know. The line between intelligence and arrogance is crossed when you forget that just because you have a lot of information and are usually right doesn't mean that others have no information or are automatically wrong.

Intelligence is the ability to gather information, understand, and apply it. One can be intelligent without being wise.

One can also be wise without being overly intelligent, but intelligence helps. One crosses into wisdom when one can evaluate and apply information without becoming arrogant.

Arrogance doesn't have a whole lot to do with intelligence. It just means you think you know everything and you are better than other people, not that you are inherently intelligent or are gaining any wisdom from your reaping of knowledge. No wise person would be arrogant. The wise person is humble because he knows that knowledge is limitless.
This is not really intended to be insulting. It's a question of semantics, partly. You do seem to be taking a certain pride in your arrogance, the mark of a truly arrogant person. I just want to advise you that you will be taken more seriously in life and will go further in life if you tone it down. You do not have to suffer fools gladly but for those who are ignorant through no fault of their own , you should show patience and impart your own knwledge. What goes around, comes around.

An arrogant person tries to prove others wrong.
An intelligent person proves oneself right, only when asked to.

An intelligent person forever considers oneself a student.
An arrogant person prematurely considers oneself a teacher.

There really is not a line between intelligence and arrogance but rather a line between confidence and arrogance. The more knowledge we gain the more confident we become. And as you stated, we also become less tolerant of other people's ignorance. I am however more irritated by lack of common sense than by stupidity or lack of knowledge. There are a lot of very intelligent people in this world that are so lacking in common sense that they are functional idiots.

intelligence teaches
arrogance is selfish
don't be aggitated by ignorance you were once ignorant about something.
wisdom comes from living
again intelligence can be taught

Intelligence and Arrogance don� �t really belong in the same spectrum, so there can� �t really be a � �line� � between them. Some incredibly stupid people can be as arrogant as they come.

Arrogance involves thinking of your own desires ahead of anyone else� �s, and it can involve intellect, money, genealogy, or beer-drinking ability.

As a former National SIG Coordinator for American Mensa (see how arrogant that can sound?), I know something about intellect. Academia is something different, and many people can� �t tell the difference. Academicians frequently � �put on� � arrogance to protect a fragile self-esteem. True intellectuals (Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, Robert Jarvik) are rarely arrogant, although being certain of a fact can often be mis-interpreted as arrogance.

Amy Vanderbilt once said that etiquette is nothing more than making the other person feel at ease. I like that definition, and would say that arrogance is the opposite of that, and requires absolutely no intelligence at all.