Intelligent and wise

This section of the web-site is devoted to people who are considered clever. But what is intelligence? How to measure it? Is football genius Ronaldinho clever? Was Albert Einstein clever? Was World Chess Champion Robert Fisher intelligent? I personally think that it is impossible to set this question in this way. In my view each individual could be assessed by two indicators.

1. The first one related to material (in terms of money generated through individual’s work or by implementation of his/her ideas) or intellectual (in terms of, say Citation Index or physical training resulting (Olympic Games champions for instance) achievements. Bill Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs who extremely successfully implemented his ideas and business tactic and is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. Jesus Christ and Muhammad will remain as supermen (apart from their religion identities) as long as mankind will exist.

Of course there are very few people in the world who came into fortune through odd ways –Queen Elizabeth II has personal wealth estimated at £1.15 billion or Vladimir Putin who’s wealth estimated at USD 40 billion. But these people just prove the formula that the rules do not exist without exceptions.

2. Another indicator which I propose is based on a number of basic positive aims which exist in any human's everyday life – to bring a child in a due way; to be responsible on a spouse; to maker enough financial income for worthy functionality of a family; to be reasonably kind upon other people; to be creative, appreciated and valuable at workplace, to be highly regarded by relatives and friends, to be persistent and successful in reaching local goals. If you collect high scored in above mentioned list of qualities, they will say that you are clever.

They say that Bill Gates is clever and this is partially true since nobody knows if he is really intelligent. The simple truth is that he is extremely gifted businessman, manager and programmer. Nothing more. Maybe he is also really intelligent, unfortunately it difficult to judge.

Since people are more interested in public person rather then common people (who could be really clever) we have to focus here on well know persons who are widely regarded as clever people. But you ideas regarding this issues are also appreciated.