Is happiness easier to acquire with greater intelligence or higher education?

Question

intelligence

1. capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
2. manifestation of a high mental capacity: He writes with intelligence and wit.
3. the faculty of understanding.
4. knowledge of an event, circumstance, etc., received or imparted; news; information.
5.the gathering or distribution of information, esp. secret information.
7.interchange of information:

education

1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
2. the act or process of imparting or acquiring particular knowledge or skills, as for a profession.
3. a degree, level, or kind of schooling: a university education.
4. the result produced by instruction, training, or study: to show one's education.
5. the science or art of teaching; pedagogics.

Answer 1

Intelligence - what's the point of education if you can't process what you're being taught.

That being said, I don't think happiness truly relies on either. Many mentally challenged people are just peachy, maybe because they don't know better. I just think, out of those two, intelligence - it brings more wisdom than just education and allows you to think(which could go either way on the happiness scale, depending), not just spit back information.

Answer 2

NO, rather the opposite, the old adage is exactly correct stated "Ignorance is bliss." The higher your intelligence level the more likely you are to be depressed or unhappy. The higher your intelligence the more you know and therefore the more you have to worry about. Now, for a few that are able to harness that intelligence into a positive profession and earn a spectacular income using it can have more happy days that sad ones but like I said those people are few and far between. So, be happy that you're not intelligent or sad that you are intelligent.

Answer 3

Our own understanding of happiness can't be defined.
You obviously can't say that both can assure you the happiness for the rest of your life.
As most things, it depends on the person, his definition of happiness. But I'm not saying that intelligence or education doesn't help you with the pursuit of happiness. Maybe if it helps you gain money and it makes you happy, why not?
That's what we everyone is give a chance to do, to find what would make them happy and then pursue it.

Answer 4

Happiness is usually only fleeting -- based upon something that happens to give one a feeling of satisfaction. Our quest should be for JOY -- a lasting satisfaction that is not based on events but rather a day-to-day feeling of satisfaction with your life.

Every experience should be something we learn from, to prevent getting trapped in failure. Some of the best-educated people -- and were honor-roll students throughout -- lack contentment. Wisdom is a big component in a joyful life.

The most wisdom to have ever lived -- King Solomon
of Israel -- wrote two diverse books that have become part of the Old Testament Scriptures of the Bible -- Proverbs and
Ecclesiastes. He wrote the former when he was a young man,
just setting out on his 40-year reign as king. When God asked him what he wanted most, Solomon asked for WISDOM that he would know how to rule his people. God honored him by giving him wealth as well. (1)

Solomon's initiail advice to everyone in his book of Proverbs is that "To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for God. Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn. Son, pay attention to what your father and mother tell you. Their teaching will improve your character as a handsom turban or a necklace improves your appearance."(2) He then proceeds to tell what wisdom is: the application of knowledge to everyday circumstances.

"Beg for knowledge; plead for insight." (3) "It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from Himcome knowledge and understanding."(4) "He protects those who treat others fairly and guards those who are devoted to Him." (5)

So, my advice is: Turn your life over to God and ask him for insight and wisdom, then treat others as you would like to be treated. (This is what Jesus taught, too.(6)) In Matthew 5
Jeus sums up how a contented person will live.

Let me add here, aquiring new skills and knowledge to apply in life can add to one's joy as he works in the vocation he enjoys. As Noel Coward, the great playright or director in
Hollywood advised, "Work should be more fun than fun." This is being misapplied today, as employers try to make the workplace a FUN PLACE. God has equipped you with desires, and if you follow the most powerful desires, you will be prosperous. Note, I did not use the word successful here;
Being successful is not tied dto the size of your bank account.

Answer 5

that's constantly silly to underestimate and degrade all of us! The wisest human beings I even have ordinary have had little formal guidance. I knew an old guy that for the duration of no way have been given previous grade college. He went to artwork to assist a super relatives. He replaced into actually the best man or woman I ever met.

Answer 6

I dont think that you need a degree (like you have)to be happy. Happiness is an emotion. You can feel/be happy. It's part of 'BEING'. It's an emotion thats experienced from within. It would be an insult to claim that one needs to be intelligent or educated to be happy. One just IS happy for numerous reasons.

PEDOGOGICS?
When I go shoe shopping...I am very happy. Happiness is a state of being.

Answer 7

Neither, intelligence and education just makes attaining happiness all the more difficult. Happiness is not a complicated feeling, why do you think most children are happy when getting candy/that new barbie doll etc...

If anything, happiness gets more elusive the more educated/intelligent one gets, we feel we need to do more to achieve it.

Answer 8

There are sooo many very smart, well-educated folks out there who are not all that happy...at the same time there are many mentally & physically challenged folks who exude happiness...and visa-versa...

Ergo, we could then say that one does not "acquire" happiness...instead, one "creates" the experience of such...mental capacity not being a great factor of the matter.

Answer 9

Happiness can't be purchased because it isn't for sale in the first place it's free : )

1. Spiritual intelligence

Answer 10

I don't think it matters how high or low your intelligence is, to be happy or not. And it does not matter about your education level either. You can be happy if you want to with any level of intelligence or education.