What is wisdom?

Question

How do you define intelligence

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Answer 1

Wisdom and intelligence are 2 different things; Intelligence comes from learning whereas wisdom comes from experience.

Answer 2

That´s really a hard question to answer. Your´re not wise when you are born, you learn by living, some get wise some not. Wisdom has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence comes as a gift when you are born, wisdom not. To define intelligence is impossible, you can be intelligent in so many different ways, for example your can have a natural talent for mathematics, languages, or you can be like Mother Theresa and help other people (sorry,can´t find the noun).Just want to say you can be intelligent in so many ways, but wisdom comes with life or than not, hope your are wise.

Answer 3

You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Then he is wise

Answer 4

Intelligence is ones ability to apply knowledge efficiently while wisdom is the ability to understand things for what they really are. Intelligence is an inborn quality while wisdom come with age and experience.

Answer 5

Intelligence is merely the ability to learn and understand different things, different ideas; wisdom is the ability to discern an insight into the interrelationships between those ideas and knowledge. That is, wisdom is the application of that knowledge in day to day life.

Answer 6

Wisdom is not only knowledge, but also experience in my mind.
Nobody can truly teach you what wisdom is. It comes with experience, not of certain things, but of a wide range of things that happen in life.
These things don't have to happen to you, but they might happen to somebody you know, and you may have to help them get through these things.
Wisdom comes from all the bad thiongs that happen in life, so in a way, the bad things are actually good things, because they give you and anyone else involved the knowledge and experience to make the future better and possibly to prevent any further "bad" events from happening.

Answer 7

Intelligence is a measure of one's ability correctly to interpret and apply the wisdom acquired by one's self and accepted from others. Wisdom is the stored accumulation of knowledge gained from living regardless of its source. Please note: it possible to recommend many dissertations meant to answer just the questions you have posed but in the end, all come to the conclusions offered above.

Answer 8

Intelligence is graded according to the ability of the person in question to master the skills of the system they are evaluated against. A non western Island society with an inherently different culture and social standards will have a complete different criterion for judging intelligence than the west, or not even share our concept of intelligence at all. In our society intelligence is tied up with the current status of the person’s ability or skill in interpreting or comprehending and utilizing abstracted rational thought systems, such as alphabet based language and mathematics which forms concepts or symbols such as words or figures representing an abstracted idea of aspects deduced and isolated from our experience of reality.

The broader the scope and knowledge of these languages and the more the insight as to the rational interrelationships between the components of the languages, what separates or differentiates one from the next, or what are the connections between individuated elements, and from what these are formed, constructed from in terms of their elementary compositional parts, such as a the idea of light switch composed of a cover plate, switch component, wiring, attachment elements, such as screws or clips, it shape, scale, material, colours, and position if viewed in an environment, and so forth, the more pliable such knowledge becomes, the more intelligent a person is judged.

In terms of wisdom it is vaguer, since there exist no test I have knowledge of for evaluating such a characteristic in a manner universally agreed. Of course, as argued above, neither does there exist a universal system for evaluating intelligence, yet intelligence as a concept in our society is more defined. Most would agree, however, in our society, that wisdom is not knowledge, but insight. It is the ability to relate what we know and do with its impact on people, thus wisdom takes into consideration, moral and ethical considerations and seeks to find practical means of dealing justly with a situation.

Wisdoms scope and field is broad, it transcends individual or group interpretations, it is holistic in its evaluation, taking in as many viewpoints and systems of behavioural judgement as possible in order to find a middle ground, or lowest common denominator, from which it can build a case for justice or resolving the dilemma. This does not mean wisdom compromises our highest ideals, but that is seeks a practical means to work towards such ideals, but settling there where a solution is found in stead of promoting one interpretation above another, as its aim not to convince or be victorious, but to resolve seemingly incompatible points of view or tricky situations.

Answer 9

intelligence can be seem in 2 different aspects. You have academic intelligence and inat intelligence (your ability to adapt to your environment and sustain your survival). so in theory animals have a from of intelligence too.

Wisdom however i believe is a unique human quality, that enables use to drawn on not only history but emotions relate to those past events it is our ability to recall and then make a sound judgement from those memories. It is more than trial and error, it is cognitive as in we consciously process it and react, where as learned response (from trial and error) is like a reflex action you don't consciously think about it your just do it (riding a bike?)

Answer 10

Intelligence is something that you can gain through the classroom and books. Wisdom is something that is gained only through having the experience of an event and using what you learned from that experience to yours and others advantage