Intelligence=the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Wisdom=the quality of having ... View MoreIntelligence=the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Wisdom=the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment.
Where do you fall within these definitions? I've seen many intelligent people lack the wisdom of good judgement. Personally, I would chose wisdom every day and twice on Sunday. My reasons are simple; Intelligence is learned, wisdom is gained. Intelligence may allow you to exist, but wisdom allows you to live. wisdom combined with intelligence is a dream; intelligence without wisdom is a nightmare. I say this in view of the country and world as a whole, where intelligent people often govern without wisdom. The learned knowledge, being controlled by the emotional state of the influencer, lacks, in most cases, the ability to discern the negative outcomes possible in the decision making process. This creates a narrow window to view the effects caused by the decisions of the influencer, because at the time of the decision, all that matters to the influencer is what they want to influence, not how it will affect the whole; whereas Wisdom allows one to consider the broader view of possible effects to the whole and considers all that are affected, as valuable and denies the narcissitic notion that only the influencers desires matter.
