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What's the difference between being smart and being wise?
- Thread starter GodInUs
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smart asses are still wise cracks. tittering
Intelligence is the acquisition and accumulation of knowledge. Wisdom is the ability to apply that knowledge as a result of experience and insight.
Smart means capability of great things.
Wise means smart plus avoiding dumb things.
Wise means smart plus avoiding dumb things.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Smart is being able to know when to duck.
Intelligent and wise wouldnt need to duck, because they know they had put on adequate armor earlier on.
To paraphrase Scott on this, intelligence seems to be a measure of how fast and/or well you learn something, while wisdom seems to be a measure of how effectively and efficiently you apply what you know in order to obtain your goals.
I can't say it any better than Rumi albeit using different words in this translation:
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet,
one already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,
and it doesn't move from outside to inside
through the conduits of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet,
one already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid,
and it doesn't move from outside to inside
through the conduits of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Smart/Intelligence refers to what you know; level of knowledge
Wisdom refers to what you experience and application of it
A patient is smart when he knows which medication to take based on what his doctor tells him. A patient is wise when his experience tells him which medication to continue taking despite his doctor's knowledge.