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The Difference & Connection Between Intelligence, Cleverness & Wisdom
Intelligence — Knowledge through learning
Intelligence is the basic starting point of the three.
When you are intelligent you know a lot of information, facts, and theories.
This knowledge is very helpful to give tips and help others superficially, but you can never be certain that it works as all practicality is missing.
It’s the “School-smarts” vs. “Street-smarts” dilemma.
Something that makes intelligence stand-out from the other two is the amount of resources you have in your arsenal to deal with any given situation.
The more intelligent you are the easier of a time you will have in using what you know and in dealing with the situations in the best way you learned, given that you are a little wise and clever too, of course.
But that is only before the situation arises.
After it has ended you will not be more intelligent but wiser as wisdom comes through the experience of applying your knowledge.
In this way, Intelligence is the Arsenal you have, which does not account for how proficient you are in using it, nor does it account for knowing what tools to use in what situation.
