The two may seem to go hand in hand or be subsets of each other, but I always thought of intelligence as innate as opposed to wisdom which is something you gain (or would hope to) over time. Intelligence would be figuring out how to do something and wisdom would be whether you should. I think of the nazi scientists who were probably brilliant but made a grave error in judgment and yes, morality in the cause they chose to serve. On the other end I think of someone like ... Yoda who seems really wise but can't form proper sentence structure.
Those probably aren't the best examples but I'm not the smartest person. But if I had to choose I'd rather be wiser than smarter.
(And the title should be Intelligence *or* Wisdom, not "and") see what I mean?
Simplified for us rubes:
Intelligence = smarts
Wisdom = common sense
Those probably aren't the best examples but I'm not the smartest person. But if I had to choose I'd rather be wiser than smarter.
(And the title should be Intelligence *or* Wisdom, not "and") see what I mean?
Simplified for us rubes:
Intelligence = smarts
Wisdom = common sense
