Generally society regards the two phrases as equals, both bringing around the same meaning, only that the term "smart" is used more than "intelligent" because... 1 syllable beats 4, doesn't it now ;)
After breaking the two down and analyzing, are they really that much the same anymore?
Being smart
After a good 45 seconds of Google-ing, I have come to realize that the internet has no definite explanation for the word "smart". Maybe I'm not smart enough to look for it, or maybe it just doesn't exist. Whatever the case, I think everyone here is of a well-off enough background to understand it.
What is being smart exactly? Its not about being knowledgeable. Its just knowing about EVERYTHING isn't it. I mean, you can only be considered smart when you score top of your class, of your school, of your whole fucking country right? So as the majority would have it, being smart is knowing everything your teachers teach, from the bell curve of normal distribution to the conditions of WW-II to the grammatical errors made by Obama during his inauguration speech(by the way there are none of).
But how do you get smart? No, you don't sit under a Bodhi tree like Buddha did. Nor do you attempt to steal Einsteins brain so you can eat it. There are only two ways to get smart; by book or by crook. Obviously hitting the books is the more noble of the choices, turning you into a four-eyed(results may vary) paper demon, loved by the students, adored by the teachers, hated by me. Well not exactly, but I don't like smart people. They're just so like, err... smart. Thing is, studying is hard, and gives people backaches, and headaches, and diarrhea, and AIDS. Lol. So thieving your way into the good books of exams is the more obvious choice isn't it? DUH, you know you want to open up that leaked exam paper. Thats the culture over here, probably the culture everywhere else.
Be smart, or get smart.
Being intelligent
After my failure to locate a good definition for the term "smart" I'm not even going to try searching for a four syllable word. Oh my god, even typing it takes so much energy. In..te..lli..gen...t.*sweats*
Intelligent. Comes from the term intelligence. Which came from the word cat(ily nigahiga).
Me: Whats intelligence?
Him: KNOWING EVERYTHING DUHHHH LIKE OMG HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW
Me: Fuck you.
See the difference between me and him? He's an idiot. I hope people like you die in a fire. That your spouse creates.
Anywayyy, you can be smart. Its easy. Study. But can you be intelligent like you are smart? Maybe, its not definite. I know straight A students that don't know how to solve a puzzle while the people backlogged in the stupid register are going around starting businesses. Not that I have anything against the smart people *I hate you*, but I prefer intelligent beings. They might not know how to answer that Biology question you just gave them, but they sure as hell would learn faster than you. Perhaps its linked to having a high IQ value. Read: Intelligence Quota.
I guess you can't become intelligent, you just are. Its a sense of being, the sharpness of the brain, processing data. Using more than 3% of your brain? I for one think that we evolved to be really stupid animals, using less than 10% of the noggin throughout our entire lifespan. I used to think I was intelligent. I loved thinking that. But in the end, I had to accept the truth. Oh well, might as well be a John Doe than an Albert Einstein. But I'm glad, and proud to say that I know many intelligent people, one of which is someone special to me. Maybe too special?
I'll leave the smart to the smart, and the intelligent to the intelligent. Hell, they might start mingling and have little smintelligent babies. Then they'll rule the world. Fuck yeah.
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