Intelligent, that way i use my smarts to become intellectual.

(1) The pulse rate in a new born baby is about 140 beats per minute. This pulse rate gradually reduces during the teenage period and settles down to it's stable value of 76 beats per minute after the age of 24 years. Different sects in the world have different criteria to declare a person to become a youth. The Indian tradition says that a person becomes a youth on his 25th birth day, taking the stable heart beat value into consideration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth (2) Modern psychologists treat the period from 35 to 40 years as middle-age crisis period. Most of the people may not feel much during this period. However for those few persons who experience its full intensity, it will be like a mini-death. In English, 'flourit' means the age of dawning of wisdom; it also means the age of 40. (See a multi-volume dictionary in a library). Energy in the body will be at its highest during the youth period from 25 to 40 years of age. Generally, Buddhi (intellect) starts functioning after the age of 40 years, but it may take longer for others. You can not blame a teenager or a youth for not having it. It is a general observation that only person aged beyond 40 years are called intellectuals. (3) The period from 40 to 60 years is called the declining period of youth-hood. It is also the period of gaining wisdom. (4)The age beyond 60 years is called old age. History knows that major inventions or innovations in science, using intelligence, were made by people after the age of 24, and major achievement in philosophy, history or literature after the age of 40.

It seems to me that "intellectual" thinking is more outside the box, and "intelligent" is a more general sense of smarts. Having the capacity of intellectual thoughts would be both a sincere blessing and curse, and being intelligent would be nice all the time. I don't know...lol

I don't know. I guess I prefer to be intellectual. Book smart, I'm not, but with most people I can hold a pretty good conversation.

I prefer being intelligent. Being intellectual enables me to read and comprehend a book. Being intelligent enables me to BUY the book in the first place.