What do you think is difference of being intellectual/knowledgeable and Being a Wise person. Who do you want to be Intellectual or Wise! And why? If ever both where competing who would win intelligence or wisdom? I thinking this by far my best question so please participate 👍😅
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What do you think is difference between Intelligence and Wisdom?
The question what either means I answer implicitly by analyzing intelligence and wisdom (cause I want to do so 😛 ):
The origin:
Intelligence is primary a bunch of natural skills and qualities of your mind, that can't be changed or improved. (Well common opinion says they rather can't, I should mention, that in my opinion and experience they can, but whatever.)
Wisdom is a state you have to acquire. Either by sampling many various experiencies or in period of very intense and abundant thinking that by any topic you think about covers large enough area and goes deep enough in the matter in each branch.
A comparison in usage: intelligence gives you the intrinsic ability to deal with completely new mental challenges more easily it allows your mind to be good in any kind of mental workings; wisdom allows you depth and broad perspective. Intelligence is all about how it (your mind) works, wisdom is all about what potential ressources and ways your mind can use.
The second question: I want to be both of course since to me they go hand in hand and an adequate development of each one is difficult without simultaneous development of respective other. My kind of mental ability is wisdom-intelligence and it is very clear to see, that in my mind they are united in the same entity. Probably since I was a child, it's how me intrinsically functions.
I am to a certain extent already. Well, I am only in areas, which I have already choosen to be it in and already gave it time to achieve it until now.
Third question: In a competition it would depend on what kind of task has to be solved. If it is a spontaneous task that doesn't relate to knowledge of either of participants intelligence would win. If it is a task that has some connection with in what wisdom has been acquired wisdom will win. (Please keep in mind, that to keep the answer most simple I striped here the wisdom of all intelligence and striped the intelligence of all wisdom while creating a completely abstract model. In truth acquiring wisdom for example almost always helps to develop intelligence at least a bit and hence the real results with real persons participating could be different. (They won't necessarily be different since by each person the value that describes how much the development of wisdom is related to development of intelligence and vice versa is different. Maybe by some people even approximately 0.))
I read other opinions now. Who say wisdom can be acquired only with direct experience, well you are mistaken. You forget about philosophers wisdom like wisdom in antique Greece. My wisdom for example IS philosophical.
The amount of comments on my other questions didn't receive much, but its when Gag selects it as great question it shows them on front page. So people see more of it and they comment and depending on what they interpret of the question, the first my take you answered of mine has hardly 5comments that to I requested them and personally invited them..
What I feel about the question is basically same but you used to many synonyms which clashes with meaning of each word so people themselves got confused before answering and making it understand is difficult so they didn't opt to answer is my best guess. But indeed it was one and same for people to answer them we need to make the questions short so they feel less intimadated by the question itself and express what they know
I have always viewed intelligence as how easily and quickly you can learn something. It will vary slightly only by how sharp or toned your mind is. I believe there is a cap to how intelligent you can be, however that doesn't mean you can't obtain the same level of knowledge as someone who is far more intelligent. We all over time will lose some intelligence along the way so for some time I say there is a bottom mean but it will drop. So yes I, and many others, agree it can change but only slightly and hinges on how well you exercise your brain.
@Ice_knight My claim is it can change not only slightly but a lot. But maybe it's not the case for everyone. However my belief is it is indeed. One only needs well adjusted methods. And I should specially mention: in my view intelligence includes "how easily and quickly you can learn" but it does include far more, for example how good you are in solving mathematical problems, finding, seeing and applying connections, how good you are when creativity is needed etc.
Interesting question. Both describe a different relationship to knowledge.
Intelligence is your ability to connect and understand the structure of knowledge. Patterns and analogy connect seemingly dissimilar elements.
Wisdom does a similar trick but over time. It focuses on changes in knowledge over time.
They both are like a flashlight at night. Intelligence is the brightness, showing every shadowy corner, and wisdom is the map you make from the light to know where you are.
I humbly decline to answer all 3 questions. I would just like to note that the questions were written based on an incomplete understanding of intelligence and wisdom eluded to in the overall post. As a result, most interpretations of the original question would result in answers that won't make sense 😉.
I asked this question mainly because even though I know answer and it's from my perspective, I can be open to others as well you need not answer all three questions cause you already answered it in first quest which was very well explained in a scientific approach that was the main reason I sm getting so many beautiful answers Fills me with joy
Intelligence is the ability to acquire and assimilate new information. Someone could be quite intelligent but uneducated and inexperienced and they would not actually have much useful knowledge.
Wisdom is the knowledge of human behavior and the ability to use that knowledge to navigate through life.
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I do believe knowledge and intelligence are two different things. Someone not very cultured could be incredibly bright and vice versa (though I admit, it is rare that a fairly knowledgeable person doesn't possess at least a fair amount of intelligence to go with it).
1. Defining intelligence is a hard task in itself and I haven't quite figured it out myself yet so I won't go much in depth. If we define it in terms of IQ then it is mostly an innate quality. At its very core I believe it is something that helps you recognize patterns and make connections. The better and quicker you are at this, the easier it will be to learn new things. Intellectually at least.
Wisdom is something that is much broader. It is built from the active observation of your life experiences, and from the humility needed to recognize your own shortcomings and to look at situations quite impartially. There is much to learn in even the simplest things is life, and finding that hidden knowledge brings wisdom, as life has its own patterns that you have to learn how to recognize.
2. I would rather be wise. I believe being intelligent is a gift, but it doesn't necessarily make living life easier. Wisdom brings peace of mind and acceptance.
3. First of all I wanted to say that, in my opinion, competition is not something a wise person would be associated with.
To answer the question though, I think it depends on the situation which of the two "would win".
Learning and understanding abstract algebra? Intelligence wins hands down.
Figuring out what truly matters in life? Wisdom might have the upper hand.
On an ending note I do think intelligence and wisdom are somewhat correlated, but you only need to be averagely bright to be able to develop a level of wisdom. The amount you are able to develop depends on many different factors, not only on IQ. As I have said, humility for example plays a big role. A person who is not humble might be so fixated on the way they view and do things that they miss all the wisdom available from looking at things from a different point of view. The amount of life experience you allow yourself to have, the control over your emotions to maintain a clear mind, are also two things that can help build wisdom.
As someone who's most likely average in intelligence but quite observant and compassionate, this is my perspective on the matter 😊 And it's interesting to think about how it is going to evolve as I grow older and gain more life experience. re-state://background_color_rgba (0, 0, 0, 0), font_color_rgb (0, 0, 0), justifyLeft
1. It was a good perspective. 2. Its becoming harder to select MHO as I can do only two. 3. why is that someone intellectually beautiful lady is masking herself under the shadow of Anonymity. 4. I also beleive the same as your 3rd point, and wanted to see who would I match with its you 😁 its not any reward though for you haha. 5. What are the last 2 lines re-state and color?
So my reasoning is this. Question 1 A lot of people are well educated, but not intelligent. They have the core knowledge, the book sense and are equipped with that but they do not know how to use it or harness it. An intelligent person is adept at learning, understanding and applying their knowledge gain. They are also always seeking more knowledge. The difference between intelligence as wisdom is TIME. It is as though intelligence speaks from the theoretical perspective whilst wisdom speaks from experience. Wisdom can only be gained by the passing of time.
Question 2 I am intelligent yes. Seeking always to be wise. Wisdom is something I know will be added to me as I experience more of the world, see and understand different cultures, encounter various types of people that I had no prior knowledge of. Intelligence is not something to seek. Whether a person is intelligent or not is based on how they use what they know. So a person would be wasting time saying I want to be intelligent, when they could literally be intelligent by changing their ways of thinking and being.
Question 3 Wisdom would always win until intelligence gains experience in the battle and becomes wise.
Intresting points I like your views, I also beleive wisdom not only comes with passing time but also by being self aware for me it's the highest point of being wise, the wisdom could be trigerred by lots of things being responsible and doing everything by yourself or by pain, pain teaches you more than any one could if you harness the pain and channel it properly there you get wisdom death is one more cause that can trigger wisdom you understand somethings that are more important in life but I maybe talking in a darker sense but nature surroundings or circumstances teaches us more..
Yes very valid point that wisdom is not achievable without introspection. Because time could pass and a person learns absolutely nothing simply because they are not conscious of what exactly is happening, the reasoning behind it and what would have affected them differently if they changed some factor of action, behavior or environment.
I don't think it is dark; speaking from experience... death teaches volumes, just as life does. I like your perspectives. Excellent question.
They're intertwined. I believe that you cannot be wise unless you're intelligent or have experience but you can be intelligent and not wise. Being wise allows you to make better use of your intelligence and organize it. Intelligence is more raw and abstract. It is raw cognitive power. Wisdom is more complex. It is a mixture of intelligence, willpower, and experience. To help you understand here's an example:Charles and James are both very intelligent men. They both have the same level of intelligence and same exact grades. Charles chooses to study "X" because it is an honorable career that can potentially help a large number of people and get him a lot of money. James instead chose career "Y" instead of career "X" even though career "X" is far superior in every way. James did that because he enjoys career "Y" a lot more than career "X", he knows he won't benefit himself or others as much in "Y" but he ignores logic because his heart told him to. Charles is wise and intelligent, james is intelligent but not wise. James does drugs despite knowing how dangerous they are and how deadly they can be because he enjoys the feeling they give him. Charles would never do that cuz he's wise. This was very difficult to write, I was half asleep and trying to stay awake. Staying up until 6 is not very wise.
Well it was good information, your efforts Didnot go waste many people will learn something for it. And you did better than me read some of my comments it was like I was drunk😂
intelligence vs wisdom... intelligence can be gotten out of books and through teachings, where as wisdom is a good amount of common sense that has been enhanced through practical experience.
anyone who as an ability to retain what they read or hear may be considered as an intelligent person, or be a candidate to enter an "intelligence" contest, but wisdom is not something learned through books or schools, but ONLY through a lifetime of actively living the experience..
an intelligent person can have what they might consider to be ALL the answers, but still not know how to use them, and only by putting the answers through the test of life, one can gain wisdom...
and only by gaining wisdom can a persons level of "experience of life in general" be proven... and be extremely proficient at using the knowledge gained... and a wise person is practical enough to know "how little they actually know about things", and yet not feel threatened or intimidated by what they dont know...
its hard to describe... but an opinion of mine is, the CIA, or central intelligence agency (of the united states) if full of facts, truths, lies and deceit... but within that agency, there is very little wisdom in using what they have collected... one can have the intelligence, but if they dont know how or when to use it, they can NOT be considered a wise person...
If I try to be succinct (not my forte), I would say intelligence applies to everyone. It's in the realm of acquiring general knowledge and skills.
Wisdom tends to be more subjective and based on personal experiences. It can't be reduced down to technical information. At the very least a most technically precise approach to sharing wisdom might span tens of thousands of pages and cover a seemingly endless number of possible scenarios and variables. Expressing and sharing wisdom usually has to work more towards figures of speech, metaphors, and be deliberately vague and poetic in nature since it requires the reader or listener to actually interpret things in a subjective way to become applicable to their own lives and experience. Some degree of fuzziness and vagueness is practically required to even attempt to share wisdom in any reasonably concise way.
As for a competition, I would say it depends on the competition. If the goal is to have the richest and most meaningful life that's filled with purpose and can make the best out of the most challenging situations, I might bet on the wise one. If the goal is to be a good leader, I'd definitely bet on the wise one since the wise one can make up for any intellectual gaps by listening to his/her advisors (which a wise leader would do). If it's solving a complex puzzle or inventing something new or winning in Jeopardy, then I'd vote for intelligence.
I could see everything boiling down to intelligence but it's usually too complicated to capture and comprehend in the most precisely detailed forms of knowledge. A scientist might be able to explain the laws of gravity that teaches us the optimal way to aim a projectile in a way that lands at the desired location. Yet they can't necessarily teach, in any reasonably concise way, how to best resolve a conflict with your specific lover. There are, at the very least, too many variables involved, and an elusive idea of what might even be "optimal" given the sheer number of unknowns and the subjective goals and experiences of all to whom it may be applicable. So it often falls upon experience, learning from trial and error, and if we try to share it, to summarize what might otherwise require tens of thousands of pages of information into something that will inevitably be terse -- if it's to have value to the reader or listener, such terse information will necessarily have to be imprecise and subject to a great deal of personal interpretation. I'd say wisdom tackles the type of knowledge that is too difficult, and too complex, to capture precisely in a technical paper.
What do you think is difference of being intellectual/knowledgeable and Being a Wise person.
Intelligence you are born with, knowledgeable is knowledge gained by learning or experience. Wisdom is knowledge gained by learning or experience too but has the ability to give you far greater riches.
Who do you want to be Intellectual or Wise! And why?
Wisdom because it can give peace of mind - to me that is worth more than all the money in the world. Gives you the ability not to be conditioned by society, and many other positives where true wealth lies.
If ever both where competing who would win intelligence or wisdom?
Wisdom for the reasons I outlined previously.
For me the greatest quote on wisdom comes from the "King" of wisdom Buddha "You are wise when you realise how little you know".
Well intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing exactly but are similar and tied closely together. How many so called intellectual have just memorized large amounts of knowledge but lack the wisdom to use or imagination to percieve something that their learned knowledge does not know? Wisdom is a combination of experience, knowledge, and good judgement, that's why elders are usually considered to be wiser than youths even better educated youths who may only posse knowledge untempered by experience that comes with age needed to make good decisions.
You can be born intelligent, but you cannot be born wise. Intelligence is simply the ability of being able to adapt your surroundings to your advantage. The more a species can manipulate their environment, the more intelligent they are considered. Wisdom, on the other hand, is knowledge that is acquired through experience and no amount of theoretical knowledge will make you wise.
Well said. I would like to add also that wisdom does necessarily depend on age as a child who has experienced a lot of trauma can be well ahead in wisdom and being able to recognise people than someone in their 30s or 40s who hasn’t been through the same things. Anyone at any age can experience things that makes them become wise.
Intelligence is just being knowledgeable or good at core skills, math, science, etc. Wisdom is when you are able to give good advice and foresight into the deeper meaning of things and situations. Far too many people think they are actually wise, when really they are just opinionated or old, no one who is wise thinks they are always right.
I like the way you think. I asked something similar a few months ago. Intelligence, knowledge, or wisdom? I did some research then and you can see my summaries there.
Intelligence is more like being able to solve a math question with just a few pieces of facts given to you, without any guidance at all. It measures someone’s mental intricacy, understanding and sharpness.
Wisdom is when someone has lived through many things , have seen any things and have learned a lot about people and society due to it. Intelligent people tend to develop high levels of wisdom by the time they get old. Dumb people never reach a high levels of wisdom by the time they’re old, I've seen this over and over again
Intelligence is how well you can aquire knowledge and skills. To be wise is to have experience, knowledge, and good enough judgement on when and how to apply them. I also think you don't need the experience so long as you have enough knowledge to make up for the experience. I have found all that are wise have knowledge experience and fine judgement, thus are actually intellectuals to some degree. It really depends upon the level of intelligence one has. If you are quite intelligent you can gather information rather quickly. However, if one already had knowledge of the subject I would surmise they would best the other.
Intelligence means the ability to learn and how quickly you learn from new information.
Wisdom means how much knowledge you retain.
Someone can be both intelligent and wise, or intelligent and forgetful (not wise), or wise, but not very intelligent (it may take them 5 to 10 times as long to learn the same thing as someone else).
To me, intelligence is the ability to think and act on your feet, to have your wits about you at the right time. You're quick to learn, and you have a potential to take in a lot of information.
However, I think wisdom comes from experience and careful observation. To be able to give solid advice comes from learning from your own mistakes, as well as others, after reflecting on them. I know intelligent people that make the same mistakes in life over and over again, and I think that's the true line. Book-smarts versus experience and reflection.
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Intelligence is something you are largely genetically predisposed to, while wisdom is something that is learned and accumulated through years of experience. The two are related in the sense that someone with greater intelligence is going to have an easier time learning the lessons that ultimately lead to wisdom.
I want all leaders to be both intelligent and wise because it takes both to be good leaders, and leader of all forms and all roles are very important in shaping society and teaching others.
Some good answers here. Kinda reminds me of an old set of verses: "He who knows not and knows not he knows not; he is a fool. Shun him." "He who knows not and knows he knows not; he is simple. Teach him." "He who knows and knows not he knows; he is asleep. Wake him." "He who knows and knows he knows; he is wise. Follow him."
Intelligence (IQ) is processing power while wisdom is the stored data from processed events. Think on your feet in a completely new environment is intelligence while any reliance on experience to help answer is wisdom or possibly only knowledge. Knowledge is more closely related to wisdom differing only in wisdom is internalized knowledge meaning that wisdom is acquired by direct experience rather than knowledge that could be book learned and not experienced.
Donald Trump supposedly has a WAIS I. Q. of 145, yet he is highly unwise. He runs his mouth about all sorts of topics that hee has no education or experience in, and makes a FOOL of himself all the time, and he lies about all sorts of things and falsely accuses all sorts of people about any number of things.
So A high I. Q. is "intelligence", but running your mouth about shit you have no education or experience in is "unwise".
I don't know if this is correct but to me intelligence is the ability to combine things together while wisdom is the ability to identify things in their absolute and direct sense - so if you can do a math equation you are intelligence cause you know how to combine A + B + C / On the other hand if you know that XYZ is Hebrew and Not Yiddish because you are familiar with patterns and philosophical groupings you are wise cause you are using your faculty of identification and discrimination
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