What is the best attribute?
Wisdom, knowledge or intelligence?
tonyted Sun 04/05/08 01:46
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Intelligence and Wisdom are not easy to separate.
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That depends though, doesn't it? I know someone who's a friend of an eminent inventor. He's extremely intelligent, but almost lacks common sense - or wisdom.
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If anything, maybe Wisdom requires more "perception" than intelligence. A greater ability to make a good judgment about the variables, such as how other human beings will react or respond to any particular set of circumstances.
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Well put. I agree with that.
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Being an Inventor requires a lot of "thinking outside the box" ... African villagers need clockwork radios because they have no electricity ... we could sell milk in cardboard cartons instead of bottles ... if you make a mistake in ink, you could have a small pot of white paint to cover it up ... etc.
Is that wise? Intelligent? Or a different quality altogether which allows you to hit on the solution which (subsequently) everyone else can see is obvious?!
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Don't render me to "thoughtful mode" just now - but that was also well observed. I'd have to think about that!!!
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IceM ... what you really mean is, winebuyer's talking ******** !!!!
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oooh ... AnswerBank automatically blanks out naughty words !!! How clever.
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Crikey ... it's half past three !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodnight. x
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No - I didn't mean that actually! Lol - but goodnight anyway.
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Wisdom is impossible without knowledge and intelligence.
Knowledge is useless without intelligence.
Therefore intelligence is the most important.
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There are two ways by which you can identify a wise man.
Firstly,he will tell you only half of what he knows....
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On most IQ tests Tony Blair would be classed as Intelligent but he believes in God and he invaded Iraq. What does this tell us ? That desire over-rides the Brain. What do you think ?
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Intelligent murderer. Intelligent Osama. Wise Solomon.
Wise Osama??
There is the difference.
If you are wise you are intelligent but intelligent people are not always wise.
wisdom:
1. good sense: the ability to make sensible decisions and judgments based on personal knowledge and experience
2. wise decision: good sense shown in a way of thinking, judgment, or action
3. accumulated learning: accumulated knowledge of life or of a sphere of activity that has been gained through experience
4. opinion widely held: an opinion that almost everyone seems to share or express
5. sayings: ancient teachings or sayings
intelligence:
1.ability to think and learn: the ability to learn facts and skills and apply them, especially when this ability is highly developed
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Wisdom presupposes knowledge and knowledge presupposes intelligence. Intelligence implies that information is out there and that one has the capacity to gather it. Knowledge is not simply gathering information but being able to integrate it into a non-contradictory cohesive structure. Devoid of a conceptual framework knowledge can be and often is dangerous; example: The knowledge of how to pull the trigger of a gun.
Wisdom is experience with the application of knowledge and its consequences and knowing how best to use it. Wisdom implies that one has obtained the necessary information and knows how and when to use it. Without wisdom, intelligence and knowledge are useless at best and dangerous at least.
While China Doll may not have answered the question as stated she did point out the all important need to first understand the meanings of the terms and differentiate between them, an essential first step to evaluating their importance which demonstrates her possession of the most important among them, wisdom.
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Wow... 34 posts before someone got it!
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It is entirely impossible to have intelligence without knowledge, and vice versa. It is difficult to tell the differences between wisdom and intelligence (if any).
Next question.
good though! got me thinking! In a wise kind of way.
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Intelligence is basically an ability to make connections between facts. If you think about IQ tests that''s pretty much what they try to measure.
It's therefore completely possible to have a appreciation of all sorts of facts (knowledge) with no ability to link them or to have a highly developed intelligence with a particularly small knowledge (although I think it's unusual)
Wisdom is the joker in the pack. It implies a human appreciation of the "rightness" of a judgement. - it's a value judgement that people make.
The Solomon story is a trivial example with a simple "right" and "wrong" - I guess it appeals to people who like simple answers.
In the real world the questions are more likely to be Was the decision to go to war in Afghanistan "wise"
The wisdom of such questions can only really be judged in retrospect when we look at who argued which way and pin the label "wise" on the winner.
Perhaps true wisdom is indistinguishable from excessive luck - Naploeon certainly thought so. He said "Dont give me good generals give me lucky ones"
It's a question that can only be truely argued in retrospect
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