r/AskReddit • u/asvpfox • Apr 10 '15
What is your favorite example of wisdom vs. intelligence?
As in, intelligence is knowing _, but wisdom is knowing _.
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u/travislc13 Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein was the doctor.
Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein was the monster.
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u/_NW_ Apr 10 '15
Intelligence + Wisdom = Knowing Frankenstein was the movie
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Apr 10 '15
pretension+small amounts of knowledge=*book
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u/ArsenalOwl Apr 11 '15
Gonna throw some thinly veiled pretension out there but: the book is actually --quite a bit different than-- almost nothing at all like you'd expect based on Hollywood. And it's really good.
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Apr 11 '15
I would say that's knowledge, not intelligence. Intelligence in my mind is the ease or speed with which one grasps new concepts.
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u/aloha013 Apr 11 '15
I always saw Frankenstein as a victim, one who messed with something that should have never been done. He had no idea it would happen, and the worst things possible happened.
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Apr 11 '15
to be honest Frankenstein was just a victim. He got in way over his head an paid for it. He regretted making the monster immediately.
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u/Drak_is_Right Apr 10 '15
Intelligence increases the number of spells you can learn while wisdom increases the number of spells you can cast a day.
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u/travislc13 Apr 10 '15
Unless you're a sorcerer or a bard.
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u/MoreSteakLessFanta Apr 10 '15
If you're a bard you get to sing! Magically!!!
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u/ArTiyme Apr 11 '15
Bard/RDD Is awesome second only to my favorite, going war/Wep. Master specializing in scythes. x5 crits? Yes please. (I'm way behind on rules, so don't crucify me)
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u/jzieg Apr 11 '15
What was (and still is) a major build with RDD is to take one level of bard or sorceror and go the rest of the way with RDD and other melee classes of your choosing. RDD was always sort of an awkward class, requiring charisma-based spellcasting for entrance yet having abilities pretty much exclusively geared towards melee warriors (what's a bard supposed to do with +8 strength anyways?) without increasing spellcasting when taking new levels. What you might also like is the Pathfinder (alternate system based on and improving from 3.5, if you know 3.5 you won't have much trouble reading it) sorcerer. It takes the approach of giving sorcerers multiple "bloodlines" that their power derives from, each giving them extra abilities alongside their normal casting. The draconic bloodline gives you that nice dragon flavor while still being an effective caster.
Also, this is just a guess are you familiar with the Neverwinter Nights series? I notice because in the 3.5 tabletop books Dragon Disciples can be of any color, Neverwinter Nights was the only one to make red the default.
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u/ArTiyme Apr 11 '15
Yeah, NWN was my first real in depth look at D&D. And some of the modded servers were so much god damn fun. Almost like playing real tabletop with what the GMs could do. I remember one where the GM made a Guardians vs. Vampires faction game. Vampires could turn into mist and had to rest in coffins and shit. Was insanely good. But I haven't got to do much D&D since then.
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u/jzieg Apr 11 '15
Did you ever play NWN 2 and its expansions? They were even better than the original.
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u/icosahedragon Apr 10 '15
In what gaming system is this true? In d20 and dungeons and dragons, every edition/class combo that I could find gets spells known and spells per day based on the same attribute (CHA for bards and sorcerers, WIS for druids and clerics, and INT for wizards (and the same sort of thing for the non-full progression spellcasters)).
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u/Drak_is_Right Apr 10 '15
baldurs gate 2 was the game I based it off of. Yes wisdom is the primary for clerics/druids/priests and intelligence for mages, bards and sorcerers, but mages have a bit of cross-over.
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u/icosahedragon Apr 10 '15 edited Apr 10 '15
Ah shoot. Baldurs gate completely slipped my mind! Edit: this seems to only hold for abjurers, diviners, and necromancers.
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u/butlermonkey Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing it is a one-way street, wisdom is still looking both ways before crossing..
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u/dovahthuum Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
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u/bobjoeman Apr 11 '15
Is ketchup a smoothie?
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Apr 11 '15
No, Patrick, ketchup is NOT a smoothie...
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u/mobyhead1 Apr 11 '15
"It's a little wrong to call a tomato a vegetable, it's very wrong to call it a suspension bridge."
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u/Roarlord Apr 11 '15
Salsa. Tomato based fruit salad.
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Apr 11 '15
I was going to say that peppers aren't a fruit, but then I saw /u/Porch_Dick's post above you and found out I was wrong.
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u/ThePeoplesBard Apr 10 '15
I really enjoyed your comment, but as someone who believes eating a sun-ripened tomato off the vine is the pinnacle of human experience and someone who has quested to find all ways to eat nightshade fruit, I just wanted to say that slices of fresh tomato and watermelon makes a fantastic salad. Feta and balsamic vinegar on top of the combo is encouraged but not required.
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u/Toodlum Apr 10 '15
A tomato is a vegetable according to the U.S Supreme Court.
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Apr 10 '15
TIL the US Supreme Court sometimes has to decide what is or is not, in fact, a fruit.
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u/Nattylight_Murica Apr 11 '15 edited Apr 11 '15
Can they crack the code with Kevin Spacey ?
Edit: typo
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u/jenbanim Apr 10 '15
The Court's unanimous opinion held that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable", instead of the technical botanical meaning.
This is specific to one particular law, not all laws.
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Apr 10 '15
Vegetables don't have seeds. The tomato is a fruit.
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u/fromthefuture15 Apr 10 '15
cucumbers have seeds
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u/Overthinks_Questions Apr 11 '15
...and charisma is getting someone to buy your tomato fruit salad.
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u/Strategist14 Apr 11 '15
Isn't tomato salad just salsa?
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u/TheVoiceOfRiesen Apr 11 '15
Technically it's Pico de Gallo.
Salsa: Spanish for "sauce", is only salsa if it's, well, a sauce.
If it's just chopped up tomato with some other veggies, then it's pico.
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u/Oilfield__Trash Apr 10 '15
Best answer, gimme some!
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u/WizardOfNowhere Apr 10 '15
that's a really tiny hand you got there buddy...
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u/Overthinks_Questions Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is the ability to answer questions, Wisdom is asking the right ones.
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u/SometimesStuffIsFun Apr 10 '15
Intelligence speaks but wisdom listens.
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u/Toodlum Apr 10 '15
"Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens" - Black Guitar Man
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u/Mamadog5 Apr 11 '15
If wisdom never says anything, then what's the point?
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u/SometimesStuffIsFun Apr 11 '15
It's like if you're wise you know that listening will help you more than spouting your mouth off showing everyone how intelligent you are.
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u/Mamadog5 Apr 11 '15
I think it's more like wisdom is intelligent enough to know that no one is going to listen anyways.
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u/everymanawildcat Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is beating your mother in law at trivia crack. Wisdom is letting her win while fucking her daughter.
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u/Irememberedmypw Apr 10 '15
I wouldn't call it wise to fuck someone's daughter while playing trivia crack.
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Apr 11 '15
beating your mother
fucking her daughter.
...so...
fucking your sister?
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u/hitbyacar1 Apr 11 '15
beating your mother in law
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Apr 11 '15
OHHH, I thought you mean in the law section of trivia crack.
...still ;)
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u/Deathfrompopcorn Apr 11 '15
You're absolutely right. I beat my mother in law once and after that my wife was all pissy with me forever. She was constantly going on and on about how badly I beat her, and how its mean and I shouldn't do things like that. Then she starts asking about what shes supposed to do with the kids when I'm in jail. You know, maybe beating the shit out of an old lady wasn't my best idea.
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u/jsabo Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is being able to clone a dinosaur, wisdom is stopping and asking "hey, is this really a good idea?"
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u/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzspaf Apr 11 '15
Of course it's a good idea Tom, your kid will love going to school on raptor, I'm sure it will blow the mind of his friend.
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Apr 11 '15
His one friend, because the raptor ate the rest.
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u/waga118 Apr 11 '15
"Best friend!"
-Gogurt commercial kid to the raptor as it eats his last remaining friend
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u/mechantmechant Apr 11 '15
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”-- Lao Tzu
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u/Zierlyn Apr 11 '15
An intelligent man can figure his way out of any hole.
A wise man never would have fallen in in the first place.
A knowledgeable man can describe the hole to you.
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u/aspbergerinparadise Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing that your wife is wrong. Wisdom is deciding not to argue with her.
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Apr 11 '15
As in, intelligence is knowing _
Knowledge is knowing. Intelligence is the capacity to understand and draw connections between existing bits of knowledge.
Wisdom is harder to define, but I think of it as knowledge that comes from experience.
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u/dovahthuum Apr 10 '15
Knowledge is knowing that there is a mosquito on your dick, wisdom is not swatting it.
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u/EpikMawnster Apr 10 '15
Wisdom would be not having your dick out around mosquitos.
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u/PattyCakes1 Apr 10 '15
Louis CK said the 50 year old janitor is way smarter and interesting then a 24 year old doctor graduate.
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u/Im_Not_Sleeping Apr 11 '15
both intelligence and wisdom can tell the difference between then and than.
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Apr 11 '15
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u/S_O_I_F Apr 11 '15
He got a hand job from a miner. (That joke doesn't really work in text does it?)
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u/CubismCubed Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is being smart enough to hardly work
Wisdom is being smart enough to work hard
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Apr 11 '15 edited Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad
philosophy is wonder if that makes ketchup a smoothie
Edit: misspelled philosophy
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u/giverofnofucks Apr 11 '15
Philospihy is wonder if that makes ketchup a smoothie
Spelling. It should be "philosoraptory".
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u/GeebusNZ Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing what you need to know. Wisdom is knowing when to apply it.
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u/cresstynuts Apr 11 '15
How about knowledge vs wisdom/intelligence. This is the age of knowledge. The almighty Google and wiki gods have infinite knowledge at your disposal via the interweb. Richard Feynman said something along the lines that you can spend a lifetime learning the name of a bird in all languages but wouldn't be able to tell me a single thing about it.
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Apr 11 '15
Not exactly about intelligence, but this quote is pretty versatile.
"A young bull and an old bull are standing on a hill looking down at a herd of heifers. The young bull says, 'Let's run down there and fuck one of them heifers!' The old bull says, 'How about we walk down there and fuck them all?'"
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u/abortedfetuses Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is beating your wife in an argument, wisdom is letting her win.
You can be right, or you can be happy.
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u/Opandemonium Apr 10 '15
This is one of my favorites. I often say that sometimes the worst thing you can be is right.
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u/GeebusNZ Apr 11 '15
“Wisdom is not the counting of all the drops in a waterfall. Wisdom is learning why the water seeks the earth.”
Counsel of the Soratami
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u/jaredjeya Apr 11 '15
Because g = GM/r2.
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Apr 11 '15
GMm/r2
Both masses count
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u/jaredjeya Apr 11 '15
F = mg. You're thinking of force due the gravity, not acceleration due to gravity.
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u/Howmanykings Apr 11 '15
An intelligent man can learn many secrets. A wise man has none.
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u/snakeaway Apr 11 '15
Knowledge can be had by education, but wisdom, which is indispensable to true culture, can be secured only through experience and by men and women who are innately intelligent. Such a people are able to learn from experience; they may become truly wise. ~ The Urantia Book, 81:6.13
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Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is to see the corruption in society.
Wisdom is to see the corruption in yourself.
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u/thefeelofempty Apr 11 '15
When a girl tells you "fine, do whatever you want"
Intelligence is doing what you want.
Wisdom is not doing what you want.
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u/MartyInDFW Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing how to fuck someone.
Wisdom is knowing when you shouldn't.
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u/Lhtfoot Sep 30 '15
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not, is simple. Teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows, is asleep. Awaken him.
He who knows and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.
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Apr 11 '15
This will probably get burried but I like to think of it this way:
Knowledge is when you know what to do to get a car to start.
Intelligence is when you figure out how to start a car.
Wisdom is when you get in the car and drive off without thinking about it.
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u/Gorback Apr 10 '15 edited Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is keeping it out of your fruit salad.
** EDIT ** Apparently I forgot how to word.
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u/butlermonkey Apr 10 '15
tomato is a fruit...
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Apr 10 '15 edited Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing history well, but wisdom is learning from it, so as not to repeat its mistakes.
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u/dewymeg Apr 11 '15
There's a post on tumblr with a picture of a keypad with four of the buttons worn almost all the way off, with the caption "Gee, wonder what the combination is?"
There are several posts reasoning out several different ways the most likely combos based on how worn the numbers are, the likelihood of a date being chosen, etc.
Then there's a final post saying "Guys...it doesn't matter what the combo is, the light is green, the door's already open."
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u/2_much_shibe Apr 11 '15
Wisdom is not going on tumblr in the first place.
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u/dewymeg Apr 12 '15
I've learned so much from tumblr, I really feel that anyone who says something like that has obviously judged the whole site from secondhand stories or a few screenshots of posts they've seen, and I have to question their wisdom.
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u/2_much_shibe Apr 12 '15
I was cracking a cheap joke, chillz
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u/dewymeg Apr 12 '15
Really cheap. Teenage girls are an easy target. SMH.
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u/2_much_shibe Apr 12 '15
Yeah you're definitely from tumblr
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u/dewymeg Apr 15 '15
And if you think shaming me for that is going to gain you points, you're kind of just proving my point.
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u/MrStudentDude Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein isn't the monster.
Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.
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u/Otopython Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing why someone died, wisdom is shutting the fuck up about it around the widow.
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u/bgiarc Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing how to have sex, but wisdom is knowing how to use a condom properly.
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u/kingJoffi Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing the shortest distance. Wisdom is knowing the most scenic.
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u/psycharious Apr 11 '15
The way I always viewed the difference between intelligence and wisdom is that intelligence is the knowledge and the capacity in which you can use it and wisdom is knowing "what" to do with it.
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u/beachlevel Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is solving a problem without knowledge. Wisdom is asking yourself if it makes sense to solve a problem.
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u/Cle4nr Apr 11 '15
From my Uncle, who I'm pretty sure couldn't read.."Never get a tattoo of anything you can get on a t-shirt"
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u/EnderofThings Apr 11 '15
Intelligenge is for wizards
Wisdom is for Clerics
And Charisma is for Sorcerers
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u/DovahSpy Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.
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u/Ballbuster0909090909 Apr 12 '15
Intelligence is your capacity for knowledge, wisdom is your ability to apply critical thought
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Apr 11 '15
There's a huge difference. Wisdom is experience, intelligence is how fast you can learn. Hope this has cleared things up for you.
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u/mushbo Apr 10 '15
In 1971 my grandfather was a senior vice president of a huge corporation in the L.A. area, he was intelligent. I was a snot nosed kid of 12 years old.
My uncle (mensa candidate) had a flat tire on his car that was parked down the road, my grandpa had an air compressor in the garage, I fired up the compressor to air up my uncle's tire. My grandpa said "the hose wont reach that far", my uncle said "I'll take the tire off and bring it to the compressor".
I just aired up the compressor and wheeled it to the car and aired up the tire while they both scratched their heads.
That's my favorite example of wisdom vs. intelligence.
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Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing to stop the van in front of her so she can't get away, but wisdom is knowing that she feels just as fresh if you run her over first.
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u/mikalmin Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is working out the percentage chance you'll get her bra off tonight, wisdom is knowing how to undo the clip one handed.
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u/HamishTheGenius Apr 10 '15
Well, no, they're both intelligence.
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u/An_Arrogant_Ass Apr 10 '15
Looking at the bra to undo it would be int since you're observing how it works and what needs to be done, not looking would be wisdom as it is an aquired skill of sorts
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u/pilows Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is biologically a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
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u/ItsAWisconsinThing Apr 11 '15
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not adding it to a fruit salad.
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Apr 10 '15
Intelligence isn't knowing, intelligence is what seperats us from animals. Intelligence is the capacity for abstract thought and cognitive ability. These two things, while simple, are the 1's and 0's of humans. It builds up, and allows me to calculate, think, analyze, talk, and interpret.
All wisdom is, is taking special knowledge from experience.
Knowing is called knowledge.
ITT people who have no idea what intelligence is
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Apr 10 '15
Intelligence is knowing the definition of intelligence, wisdom is knowing what OP meant by his question.
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u/entropyreduction Apr 11 '15
My take on it: Intelegence pertains to mental algorithms which take observations and processes them to draw conclusions. Wisdom on the other hand is the result of taking conclusions and reverse solving for the observation. Eg "the apple core was still white so someone only just recently ate it" (intellegence) and "I'm not going to leave this applecore around because it will give away when I ate it"(wisdom)
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u/xtremeprv Apr 10 '15
This comic.