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What Is The Difference Between Intelligence And Wisdom?
Intelligence vs. Wisdom is an age old question.
What makes someone smart? What makes a person wise?
In most games, the difference between the two is book-smarts vs. street-smarts, or theoretical knowledge vs. practical, learned vs. applied.
In these cases, a smart person is one that knows a lot of information.
They learned a lot in school, are book smart, and have a lot of specific knowledge about the world or specific subjects.
They know things, but do not necessarily know how to apply them.
People that are very smart excel in careers where they can sit behind a desk or in jobs where someone else tells them what to do.
On the other hand, a wise person is one that experienced a lot of situations.
Their knowledge is based on what memories they have and how they encountered certain situations.
They often gained knowledge through trial and error, and can apply what they know.
However, a wise person is always limited by the information they have at hand.
It is as though the smart person commands a very large, but shallow, pool of information, while the wise person commands a very deep, but narrow pool.
