Anyway, it would be because you may be smart yet you don't know how to use that
intelligence.
You may also be wise, but you don't have intelligence... in that case, you end
up being wise only with the things you know, which is not too much.
But if you have both of them, well it could be more useful to be intelligent and
wise so you know what you are doing.
i prefer wise. intelligence simply meant that u have a high IQ. whereas wise
meant that u have seen through life and have matured cause of the life
experience and therefore is able to see life in a more rationalized way and have
become patient and rational.
personally, I'd choose to be wise because a wise person can decide how best to
use what intelligence he or she does have, while a person who is only
intelligent could be swayed by a bad moral conscience to do harmful things to
themselves and/or the world/people around them.
...far better to be wise i think.
Wisdom is more important than smarts. A guy with lots of smarts but little
wisdom still has a good chance of making lots of wrong choices in life which
backfire on him.
A guy like Napoleon was a genius, very smart guy, revolutionary in his ideas and
their implementation. Not very wise though, which led to his eventual
fall.
People like Mother Theresa or Gandhi, on the other hand, may not have been the
brightest people on the planet, but were very wise.
When you got both smarts and wisdom, you might get someone like Queen Elizabeth
or Benjamin Franklin.
So therefore being wise is basically common sense like an instictive reaction,
and being smart is actually using your head for something so i'd prefer to be
wise
Well, "smart" and "wise" are technically just words used to
describe an abstract concept
Anyway, I don't think one can really choose between the two as to which is
better. I would imagine a smart person is better academically and a wise person
is better when it comes to survival in the world. I guess it depends on the
situation---a smart person isn't necessarily wise and vice-versa (I get good
grades, but when it comes to common sense---hehe :3).
But being "smart".. it's very abstract. You can be very smart
academically and have horrible life skills (like social skills for example). And
being smart doesn't nesessarily get you anywhere. If you're too smart, and
very.. original as well, then you could be viewed as simply weird. =P
I'd choose wisdom. Even if you weren't very smart academically, at least you
would be "wise" enough to put what you know to good use.
After all; it's not what you know really.. it's how you use it.
i don't think wisdom and intelligence are linked. some people are very
intelligent but do stupid things... because they lack wisdom.
it's probably best to have both. if you think about it - wise people that aren't
intelligent know they're not intelligent because their wise. but people who lack
both don't have to care about that :P
people that are intelligent and aren't wise can bring their optential to wrong
places and directions... like making war weapons ans such
I'll go for wise ppl. Wise ppl can, at least, willing to study, while smart
people can be a pain in the ass without wisdom. Although wisdom usually gained
through experience rather than reading a book, smart ppl usually use book or
even other ppl advice to judge and take action. While the wise one can decide
and take action on their own.
Can't say that an smart person is no better than a wise person. I prioritize
wisdom, though i practiced more knowledge....
Niether. `Cause both contradict each other. Niether one can live without the
other. Why ? Think of it as food for the brain and for the body....ok, some may
not catch where i am getting.
Smarts are like what we call, IQ. Upon learning, we are like harvesting them
into a big pool of reserve in our minds and call it experiences. We need those
experiences , be it self or externally, in order to proceed into enhancing our
thinkings and logics to proceed further on.
Hence, wisdom is born. Btw, we use Common sense for smarts as well.
Should we lack or be devoid of either...let's say smarts, we probably be stuck
at the level of intelligence we are in with varying results and need a constant
refreshes of doings on particular thingies. That can be said on lacking wisdom
as well. Which we so commonly call it, "Short-Sighted-ness" I am not
going to blabber on and on about the 5 W's and 1 H on them since, we are what we
are ! People are always changing...so does how one percieves the logic of
existence on our world.
~_~ Sheesh... i DO hope you guys are catching where i am going. If not, well,
perhaps i can say, tough luck. I 'll try a more simple layman term if possible
next post.
THus, both contradict each other in similar ways.
However, if you DO want a decent comparison of which far best in battle of wits,
with no rules bar, in the long run, It's wisdom.
In my taking of "wise" & "smart", I'd prefer to be
wise.
Smart is nice & all, certainly by some standards I have been called such,
but I'd much rather be wise because in my experience being wise is a worldly
awareness & knowing that helps you & those around you.
I was once called wise by a friend for advice I gave & have often been asked
to give advice, I'm far from wise, but it'd be nice if I were. Though I suppose
a wise-person knows better than to even think such things
It all depends on your definitions of smart & wise, for me smart is useful
in a concentrated kind of way, but wise is useful in everyway.
Ya know, there's a difference between the two.
Still, both speaks about knowledge and wisdom.
A wise person is a person who knows what is right and what is wrong.
A smart person is a person who can outsmart or... He knows a lot about life
(?)
Ecclesiastes 8:1, TLB. "How wonderful to be wise, to understand things, to
be able to analyze them and interpret them. Wisdom lights up a man's face,
softening its hardness."
Proverbs 1:7, NIV. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but
fools despise wisdom and discipline."
dictionary definition - wisdom
1) The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
2) Common sense; good judgment: â??It is a characteristic of wisdom
not to do desperate thingsâ?? (Henry David Thoreau).
Knowledge provides the ability to analyze specific (small) problems, and
otherwise collect and use factual information. Wisdom, however, extends over a
far greater expanse. Having a powerful gun is useless if you don't know how to
use it. Soldiers receive training. Having the finest art supplies does not make
an artist an artist. Knowing vast histories means nothing either, if you cannot
understand the application.
Given the statement, "Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees",
applies nicely here. ...Knowledge provides many quick, important solutions.
...But without context, without understanding their true importance, without
insight, these solutions are of little use. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made
so that other opportunities can be followed. ...Discerning opportunity cost
requires only simple math. ...But to fully know what variables need to be
included in the model requires understanding.
Perhaps that's another difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge
categorizes facts. Wisdom, however, allows you to actually understand them. --
But wisdom doesn't stop there. It includes patience and discipline. ...And to
reference other (Cardinal) virtues; Prudence, Temperance, Justice and Fortitude.
...And then there are Faith, Hope and Love. ..But those are of a more
spiritual/(Theological) nature.
I'd prefer to be a wise person. It would be more beneficial to someone who
doesn't plan to have a very complex life, a more humble one. And I just realized
that I am a smart person, and now I don't believe that is a very great quality.
As said by those before I, wisdom and intelligence are linked, no matter what.
Though you can separate them like this:
Smarts=acedemics and general information
Wisdom=view on life, what to do in life situations
To be wise is to be a master of life, and to be smart is to be someone who can
blurt facts and not know what they mean, or simply have no idea about life.
Wisdom, to me, is experience, and smarts is math, grammer, and sciences
(generally/vaguely).
Well,if you ask me,i of course,would say a wise person is better cause it's
better to be careful about everything your gonna do instead of
...well,"showing off" and having other people hate you.(jealous(?))
Being smart is cool. You think fast and can pick things up very quickly. I'd
say this has to do with 'talent'.
Being wise is cooler, and it should be the ultimate goal. In truth, I don't see
being smart and being wise as mutually exclusive. Smart people usually turn out
wise, and wise people are almost certainly smart people. I think being smart
actually leads you to eventually become a wise person.
I think the general consensus would be that if one can make the 'right' decision
and do the 'right' things, that is better than 'knowing' something. Success is
determined not simply by what you know, but what you can/have achieved. So
depending on the definition of what smart and wisdom is, you could pick either,
as long as in the end they make you someone who can be successful faster...
As said by those before I, wisdom and intelligence are linked, no matter what.
Though you can separate them like this:
Smarts=acedemics and general information
Wisdom=view on life, what to do in life situations
To be wise is to be a master of life, and to be smart is to be someone who can
blurt facts and not know what they mean, or simply have no idea about life.
Wisdom, to me, is experience, and smarts is math, grammer, and sciences
(generally/vaguely).
Couldn't have differentiate it for me better than thy self. Thanks. I own you
some Jasmine Green Tea. Ah..
.the rest of you too ! * Pours Tea onto rows and rows of Tea cups.*
For me, being smart means knowledge, and being wise means experience. None is
better than the other, you just need to be smart sometimes and then sometimes,
you need to be wise. That's it.
hm.. Well I think a smart person can became wise, while some1 that ain't smart
will became wise harder. Why ? Well ain't smart the same thing with " fast
" ?
If a wise persone and a smart persone meet, the wise guy will allways have
something more intresting to say to the other guy, but the smart guy will jump
to his own conclusion faster, and in time, after the smart one gets to know more
things, in other words, becames wise, he will dafenetly have nice ideas just
like the his friend the wise guy, but he will have a faster respons rate, a
faster way to find out thing....
I think I'll choose both. (Is that acceptable?)
Anyway, it would be because you may be smart yet you don't know how to use that intelligence.
You may also be wise, but you don't have intelligence... in that case, you end up being wise only with the things you know, which is not too much.
But if you have both of them, well it could be more useful to be intelligent and wise so you know what you are doing.
i prefer wise. intelligence simply meant that u have a high IQ. whereas wise meant that u have seen through life and have matured cause of the life experience and therefore is able to see life in a more rationalized way and have become patient and rational.
personally, I'd choose to be wise because a wise person can decide how best to use what intelligence he or she does have, while a person who is only intelligent could be swayed by a bad moral conscience to do harmful things to themselves and/or the world/people around them.
...far better to be wise i think.
Wisdom is more important than smarts. A guy with lots of smarts but little wisdom still has a good chance of making lots of wrong choices in life which backfire on him.
A guy like Napoleon was a genius, very smart guy, revolutionary in his ideas and their implementation. Not very wise though, which led to his eventual fall.
People like Mother Theresa or Gandhi, on the other hand, may not have been the brightest people on the planet, but were very wise.
When you got both smarts and wisdom, you might get someone like Queen Elizabeth or Benjamin Franklin.
So therefore being wise is basically common sense like an instictive reaction, and being smart is actually using your head for something so i'd prefer to be wise
being wise is better, cause u can become smart, read more books, study more but a person who's wise is born wise, and it's hard to become wise....
Well, "smart" and "wise" are technically just words used to describe an abstract concept
Anyway, I don't think one can really choose between the two as to which is better. I would imagine a smart person is better academically and a wise person is better when it comes to survival in the world. I guess it depends on the situation---a smart person isn't necessarily wise and vice-versa (I get good grades, but when it comes to common sense---hehe :3).
Lol, both would be nice.
But being "smart".. it's very abstract. You can be very smart academically and have horrible life skills (like social skills for example). And being smart doesn't nesessarily get you anywhere. If you're too smart, and very.. original as well, then you could be viewed as simply weird. =P
I'd choose wisdom. Even if you weren't very smart academically, at least you would be "wise" enough to put what you know to good use.
After all; it's not what you know really.. it's how you use it.
I would`chose both, but if I had to..`I think to be wise is better!
i don't think wisdom and intelligence are linked. some people are very intelligent but do stupid things... because they lack wisdom.
it's probably best to have both. if you think about it - wise people that aren't intelligent know they're not intelligent because their wise. but people who lack both don't have to care about that :P
people that are intelligent and aren't wise can bring their optential to wrong places and directions... like making war weapons ans such
I'll go for wise ppl. Wise ppl can, at least, willing to study, while smart people can be a pain in the ass without wisdom. Although wisdom usually gained through experience rather than reading a book, smart ppl usually use book or even other ppl advice to judge and take action. While the wise one can decide and take action on their own.
Can't say that an smart person is no better than a wise person. I prioritize wisdom, though i practiced more knowledge....
smart is being intelligent. facts. IQ.
wise is knowing what to do. being streetwise. this will get you through anywhere.
i choose wise. :3
Niether. `Cause both contradict each other. Niether one can live without the other. Why ? Think of it as food for the brain and for the body....ok, some may not catch where i am getting.
Smarts are like what we call, IQ. Upon learning, we are like harvesting them into a big pool of reserve in our minds and call it experiences. We need those experiences , be it self or externally, in order to proceed into enhancing our thinkings and logics to proceed further on.
Hence, wisdom is born. Btw, we use Common sense for smarts as well.
Should we lack or be devoid of either...let's say smarts, we probably be stuck at the level of intelligence we are in with varying results and need a constant refreshes of doings on particular thingies. That can be said on lacking wisdom as well. Which we so commonly call it, "Short-Sighted-ness" I am not going to blabber on and on about the 5 W's and 1 H on them since, we are what we are ! People are always changing...so does how one percieves the logic of existence on our world.
~_~ Sheesh... i DO hope you guys are catching where i am going. If not, well, perhaps i can say, tough luck. I 'll try a more simple layman term if possible next post.
THus, both contradict each other in similar ways.
However, if you DO want a decent comparison of which far best in battle of wits, with no rules bar, in the long run, It's wisdom.
In my taking of "wise" & "smart", I'd prefer to be wise.
Smart is nice & all, certainly by some standards I have been called such, but I'd much rather be wise because in my experience being wise is a worldly awareness & knowing that helps you & those around you.
I was once called wise by a friend for advice I gave & have often been asked to give advice, I'm far from wise, but it'd be nice if I were. Though I suppose a wise-person knows better than to even think such things
It all depends on your definitions of smart & wise, for me smart is useful in a concentrated kind of way, but wise is useful in everyway.
Ya know, there's a difference between the two.
Still, both speaks about knowledge and wisdom.
A wise person is a person who knows what is right and what is wrong.
A smart person is a person who can outsmart or... He knows a lot about life (?)
I think being wise is better.
I think a wise person, because a smart person may be smart, but they may not be wise. Usually, wise people are wise, and smart
Ecclesiastes 8:1, TLB. "How wonderful to be wise, to understand things, to be able to analyze them and interpret them. Wisdom lights up a man's face, softening its hardness."
Proverbs 1:7, NIV. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline."
dictionary definition - wisdom
1) The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
2) Common sense; good judgment: â??It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate thingsâ?? (Henry David Thoreau).
Knowledge provides the ability to analyze specific (small) problems, and otherwise collect and use factual information. Wisdom, however, extends over a far greater expanse. Having a powerful gun is useless if you don't know how to use it. Soldiers receive training. Having the finest art supplies does not make an artist an artist. Knowing vast histories means nothing either, if you cannot understand the application.
Given the statement, "Don't lose sight of the forest for the trees", applies nicely here. ...Knowledge provides many quick, important solutions. ...But without context, without understanding their true importance, without insight, these solutions are of little use. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made so that other opportunities can be followed. ...Discerning opportunity cost requires only simple math. ...But to fully know what variables need to be included in the model requires understanding.
Perhaps that's another difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge categorizes facts. Wisdom, however, allows you to actually understand them. -- But wisdom doesn't stop there. It includes patience and discipline. ...And to reference other (Cardinal) virtues; Prudence, Temperance, Justice and Fortitude.
...And then there are Faith, Hope and Love. ..But those are of a more spiritual/(Theological) nature.
I'd prefer to be a wise person. It would be more beneficial to someone who doesn't plan to have a very complex life, a more humble one. And I just realized that I am a smart person, and now I don't believe that is a very great quality.
A wise person indeed my friends.
As said by those before I, wisdom and intelligence are linked, no matter what. Though you can separate them like this:
Smarts=acedemics and general information
Wisdom=view on life, what to do in life situations
To be wise is to be a master of life, and to be smart is to be someone who can blurt facts and not know what they mean, or simply have no idea about life. Wisdom, to me, is experience, and smarts is math, grammer, and sciences (generally/vaguely).
Well,if you ask me,i of course,would say a wise person is better cause it's better to be careful about everything your gonna do instead of ...well,"showing off" and having other people hate you.(jealous(?))
Being smart is cool. You think fast and can pick things up very quickly. I'd say this has to do with 'talent'.
Being wise is cooler, and it should be the ultimate goal. In truth, I don't see being smart and being wise as mutually exclusive. Smart people usually turn out wise, and wise people are almost certainly smart people. I think being smart actually leads you to eventually become a wise person.
I think the general consensus would be that if one can make the 'right' decision and do the 'right' things, that is better than 'knowing' something. Success is determined not simply by what you know, but what you can/have achieved. So depending on the definition of what smart and wisdom is, you could pick either, as long as in the end they make you someone who can be successful faster...
Couldn't have differentiate it for me better than thy self. Thanks. I own you some Jasmine Green Tea.
Ah..
.the rest of you too ! * Pours Tea onto rows and rows of Tea cups.* 
Well Said ! My Fellow Friends !
For me, being smart means knowledge, and being wise means experience. None is better than the other, you just need to be smart sometimes and then sometimes, you need to be wise. That's it.
hm.. Well I think a smart person can became wise, while some1 that ain't smart will became wise harder. Why ? Well ain't smart the same thing with " fast " ?
If a wise persone and a smart persone meet, the wise guy will allways have something more intresting to say to the other guy, but the smart guy will jump to his own conclusion faster, and in time, after the smart one gets to know more things, in other words, becames wise, he will dafenetly have nice ideas just like the his friend the wise guy, but he will have a faster respons rate, a faster way to find out thing....
I hope that made my opinion clear.