does highly educated = high intelligence = wisdom?

Question

I live in a universtiy town where many are highly educated. I have noticed that this doesn't necesarily make a person intelligent or wise...

I have also noticed that some who are highly intelligent lack emotional intelligence and common sense...

When I speak of wisdom, I mean a knowledge that comes from both the head, heart and experience. Atheists are always speaking about intelligence as if it is their holy grail, the only thing that matters.

My question: is it better to be intelligent or wise? Does it serve humanity more to know rocket science or to know how to love?

Answer 1

My sister was a 4.0 student that graduated from college with honors and is one of the dumbest people on earth.

Answer 2

In Buddhism,intelligence consists of worldly intelligence and spiritual intelligence.Worldly intelligence mean you know a lot of things from this world like math,science,history....etc and spiritual intelligence mean things that is beyond worldly knowledge.Wisdom is when things happens and you already know the answer or know how to solve;when wisdom come ,you not even know that you had the wisdom.Highly educated is good but may not had the wisdom.Wisdom is within oneself and can only be guide and must be cultivate by yourself.Wise is the better choice.Ai Mi Tuo Fo and a Happy New Year

Answer 3

It is better to know both rocket science and how to love. True wisdom comes from knowledge and experience, with a healthy dose of common sense and curiosity thrown in for good measure. Rocket science feeds the brain and love feeds the heart. The ability to think independently of the herd is important too.

Answer 4

I agree wisdom has nothing to do with IQ, If you are a wise man than you have a degree of intelligence. And I do not mean degrees from a university. I know several individuals who have PH D's and have no intelligence outside of there field. Which is good because they are experts in their field of study. Society needs that. But we Also need men of social stature to lead our country who are wise. We need both...Wise men and intelligent men. I can not say one is more important than the other

Answer 5

highly educated and highly intelligent people can have wisdom- but people with wisdom may not necessarily be that highly educated- why do I say this- because wisdom is the acting out of the knowledge that you have- and I know some people that far more wiser than people with multiple degrees after their name. There is nothing wrong with intelligence- but if that intelligent person does not use wisdom then their knowledge means absolutely nothing.

One of my favorite quotes is- "people will not care how much we know, until they know how much we care"

Answer 6

Intellegence is a great tool. It is awe inspiring to see what new ideas people can come up with, however, the wisdom brought on by experience can often improve or help those ideas. True enough, intellegence is to be treasured, but I would rather have an experienced soldier with me in a war, than someone who has large technological knowledge of the weapons being used in said war.

Answer 7

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "best". Best at getting man to the moon, I'd say intelligence wins out--best at reasoning with two sides of a war on how to make it stop, I'd take wisdom over intelligence any day.

I think the two are definitely related--I've seen very few dumb people who were wise, or knowledgeable people who were fools...I think they go together a lot more often than not...

Answer 8

No, not at all. Knowing rocket science has gotten us a lot of things that have helped a large chunk of the population whereas knowing how to love is more localized. If it was a human wide change then love would be the better of the two whereas rocket science without a thought for humanity leads to nuclear weaponry.

Answer 9

none of the three follow. a person with a low i.q. can apply himself and earn a degree, and as you said, high intelligence doesn't imply wisdom. wisdom comes from applying knowledge on all levels, it goes beyond intelligence and education.

rocket science is useless if you don't have the wisdom to use it sensibly. you make a good point. it often seems that our intelligence has outpaced our wisdom.

Answer 10

The girl in my class who is going to be valedictorian has very little common sense. But she's very very smart. That's how most smart people are.

Humanity currently feels like we should be smartsmartsmart and make all sorts of new technology so we can make life better.
And, in this process, we are forgetting how to love each other.

As a stoic, I think it is important that we are intelligent, but not too intelligent, and wise, but not too wise, as well.

But, as a romantic, I feel like we should throw intelligence and scholarly things to the wind and only care about each other.

So I dunno. Society teaches us wisdom is of little importance. But then again, society is generally wrong.

Answer 11

None of the three are equivalent to each other.

It is preferable to be both intelligent and wise.
It serves humanity more to know both rocket science and how to love.

The world is never either/or. Atheists I know are often highly educated, highly intelligent, and very wise. You can tell who they are. They are very evident when you see what they write, and how they write.