how are intelligence and wisdom related?

Question

intelligence: capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.

wisdom: the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.

intelligence is innate. wisdom grows through time. but can one be considered wise without necessarily being intelligent? and how is this intelligence measured btw?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

General knowledge contributes to personal enrichment, and a better understanding of the world (and the universe!) as a whole.

It will help you do everything from planning a garden (Geometry, Meteorology, pest control, planting season) to balancing a check-book (addition, subtraction). What about cooking? Lots of Science and Chemistry there! Knowledge and understanding of Art (color, forms, proportions, etc) can even help you dress better! :-))

It will make your entire life more meaningful and successful.

The more you know about specific things, the more you can connect the individual, separate facts to other facts. This leads to UNDERSTANDING.

If you understand History, it will help you understand Politics. If you know the facts of leader's and politician's lives, it will help you understand History.

If you understand Psychology, and Sociology, it will help you understand how people and cultures act and interact. This will help you understand Politics and History.

If you understand Math, it will help you with Finance and Economics.

If you understand Finance, it will help you understand Economics.

If you understand Finance and Economics, you will be able to make money!

If you understand Music and Art, Poetry, and Literature, it will help you understand yourself, people, and cultures, and History.

If you understand all the many and varied realms of Science, the entire world opens before you! :-)) You will better be able to see how the Reality around you operates, and how it is interconnected. You will understand how to use it to your own advantage, AND how to preserve it for it's own sake!

People who KNOW and UNDERSTAND, are empowered to act, and to make their own choices. People who do not know, and do not understand, are pawns. They are ACTED UPON.

At the very least, you will never be bored! You will be able to think, and assess situations, and people, and events in a much more detailed and meaningful way! You will also be MUCH more interesting to talk to! :-))

A great man, Francis Bacon, once said, "Knowledge itself is power." :-))

Another great man, William Butler Yeats, said, "Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire."

Hope this helps! :-))

Answer 2

There are several IQ tests on the internet. They ask lots of questions that involve being able to look at all sorts of puzzles and situations and figure out the one right answer.

That is how intelligence is measured. There has been a great deal of controversy on the subject, due to different cultures with different truths.

Wisdom cannot be tested, but is evident when you read through some of the answers on Yahoo. People who just seem to know what the right decisions are... partly because they have made the right ones and partly because they have made the wrong ones and learned from it.

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Answer 3

Being wise doesn't mean your intelligent. Wisdom comes from over time through experiences. And experiences don't come from being wise. Intelligence is knowing a lot to a certian degree. A baby could be wise while an old man is not. The old man is wise and the baby is not! I hope I have answered you question! :)

Answer 4

you can be intelligent without being wise and also, u can be wise without being intelligent.
I don't really know how u can measure wisdom. I think it has to do with the way one deals with reality or life. Intelligence is more situational, like problem solving.

Answer 5

A dumb pc could have a great quantity of understanding available to charm to on. Intelligence would properly be utilized without understanding. Take Adolf Hitler for an occasion. He became an evil genius. i think of understanding and understanding is the main suitable combination. that's the comparable as guidance. yet to complicate the subject enable's inspect "highway smarts." i'm going to have an institutional guidance, understanding and intelligence yet i'd sense particularly helpless if i found myself on a city highway, bare and without my wallet or any acquaintances or pals close by. yet a new child who became raised on the streets in an fullyyt distinctive city could in all probability be waiting to stay to tell the tale that even without formal guidance, no longer a intense I.Q., and little understanding. yet what's the main suitable degree of intelligence different than the means to stay to tell the tale?

Answer 6

They are mutually exclusive. For example the best minds in the world have not figured out how to prevent nations from going to war, and to live peacefully with each other. Just look at all the idiocy coming from liberalism, socialists, and leftwingers.

True wisdom comes from God. They are based on principles as unchanging as, for example gravity.

Answer 7

I can answer this with a line pinched from Peter Kay.

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Answer 8

Intelligence is regular in our life

Answer 9

intelligence comes from the mind..wisdom comes from age...

Answer 10

Theory and practical experiance.