azzaman333
meh
Those who are smart are more likely to be wise, or able to become wise.
wise vs smart
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MobBoss
Off-Topic Overlord
Not to mention that there is a difference in being smart...and being educated.
The Prophet of Common Sense says wisdom ftw.
The Prophet of Common Sense says wisdom ftw.
Hygro
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You're right, cuz I already mentioned that 
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Both are often trumped by common sense and/or persistence
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
My mom doesn't live in my home or put food anywhere near my table.
Mise
isle of lucy
As the one of the few people in this thread who is both, I can authoritatively state that you can't have wisdom without being smart. If you think you are wise but not smart, you're wrong about exactly one of those things.
Hygro
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Common sense, you mean the nonsense of a mob that overrides truth, logic, and wisdom?
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
That's a fairly long bow to draw and do you really think that is what I meant ? If so , that seems to lack some common sense
What I mean is that often people who would not technically be classed as either smart or wise make better choices by simply having their heads screwed on ( non pedantic term for common sense)
Hygro
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Your point was that people are happier and successful regardless of intelligence. I think by definition wise includes that element, lest it isn't entirely wise. But since you divorced them I had to go with the another definition of common sense for your statement.
Mise
isle of lucy
How many smart people have failed in life... Compare that with the number of dumb people who have failed in life, but would claim to have "life skills" or "common sense" in spades. Pretty sure "common sense" isn't the critical success factor.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Unfortunately I am personally neither smart nor wise enough to really come up with something to argue against this .
But I do have enough common sense to know that simply praising this quality in people is along way from stating that "people are happier and successful regardless on intelligence "
Hygro
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Wait now you're saying common sense isn't better than wisdom/intelligence because it better leads to happiness, but for a different reason? Then what is the different reason
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Wait now you're saying common sense isn't better than wisdom/intelligence because it better leads to happiness, but for a different reason? Then what is the different reason
Initial statement by me " often common sense trumps both " I stress the word "often" , not "always" or even "usually"
It's not a sweeping statement regarding the superiority of common sense or one of those annoying " all you smart guys don't know jack , all you need is street smarts " rubbish.
I very much doubt Albert E would have come up with general relativity by simply knuckling down to business !
So to clarify any confusion , all I was saying was that in the context of the thread , its nice to know that from time to time the universe grants the win to the fella that puts his head down and applies himself or uses some common sense .
But conversely , a world without very smart or wise people to enlighten us would be much the poorer and I'm constantly pleased to be able to learn from them
Hygro
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Oh, yeah, I totally agree that there's more to living a good life or making the world a better place than being smart or wise.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Ingvina Freyr
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...yes, and the rest is experience so wisdom is made up of one or the other or most likely a combination of both.
But you can posess intelligence without being wise, wouldn't you agree? As in the professor who thinks the thugs infront of him with baseball bats are interested in sports.
Could you eloborate on what failing in life means?
Mise
isle of lucy
No, not really 
Ingvina Freyr
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Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. It would have been an interesting subject involving (hopefully) a lot of wisdom.
Success means different things to different people, just because someone has not succeeded in the usually accepted manner, ie social and financial standing, does not necessarily mean they have failed at anything, they may well have just had the wisdom to search for happiness elsewhere, there have been people who were very successful in the conventional manner but decided to give it all away and search for what was missing in their life, it's all down to people's different goals.
