Exterior Beauty or Intelligence
By carlynganda
@carlynganda (749)
Philippines
June 21, 2010 5:50pm CST
Well exterior beauty might catch someone's eye right away, but still intelligence and passion is far more attractive and influential over time. Those traits took more than an instant to decipher, and beauty had nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and long run, cultural norms: primarily those values and norms influenced by family, were more important.
6 responses
@metalsolid86 (431)
• United States
11 Jul 10
Well can we have both lol. I know I have both. I have a girl that is extremely beautiful since she is a model and she is also very smart. Which i never knew she was smart before, I'd say she smarter then me lol and you know what Im happy to have a girlfriend who is that beautiful and smart she is one of a kind.
@jennyze (7027)
• Indonesia
29 Jun 10
Yes you are right. There are many husbands who have beautiful wives, still they look for intimate relationship with woman who are not pretty. Why? I think it is because beauty is not enough. You need to have intelligent as well as emotion level.
And beauty is subjective to whoever sees it.
@JAYMAR777 (839)
• Philippines
22 Jun 10
I still believe that both could be present in a single individual, the degree of each attribute my differ though. Anyway I believe your right but if I have to choose a single trait between the two, I may say it would be intelligence. But i guess the best in the person should be their attitude. Beauty will get you far, maybe until 60. Intelligence may be good, but too intelligent sometimes sacrifices their logic or maybe sanity. But character or attitude will get you very far. They say, "attitude determines your altitude". and even in relationship, it works best.
Good day carlyn
@sender621 (14889)
• United States
23 Jun 10
Exterior beauty is only skin deep. Sooner or later looks will fade. Intelligence is inside you. You can hold onto it forever.
@carrie_023 (61)
• China
22 Jun 10
good looking will not last forever. it is like the beautiful flowers which doomed to fade one day. A beauty without intelligence is called flower vase in China. Nice girls will get more tempt than a average looking girl. if the beautiful girls without wise,they will ease to be seduced and lost themselves. A beauty without intelligence is dangerous.
@mspitot (3824)
• Philippines
22 Jun 10
if i can choose only one, i will choose intelligence. if you are intelligent, you will have more opportunities. even if you are not that very beautiful, if you know how to carry your self, then you can be confident. beauty is not useful if you know nothing.
