Tuesday, September 27, 2011

What is the difference between a SMART person and a WISE person?

I have heard the phrase ''a smart person learns from their mistakes, a wise person learns from the mistakes of others'' but is this the what the difference is, or is there more to it than that?





What is the exact definition of SMART and WISE and what is the exact difference between the meaning of the 2 words?|||A smart person uses knowledge without involving their past.


A wise person uses knowledge based on experience from their past.|||Smart: having or showing quick intelligence or ready mental capability


Wise: having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.





In my own words, smart is being intellectually adept, while wise is being educated in matters that don't have a definite answer.





For example: a smart person might be really good at algebra. A wise person would come up with an honest and true answer for a friend that asked for some advice.|||Smart refers to the cerebral way of gaining knowledge.





Wisdom, for example, is always a choice; it doesn't come automatically with those high SAT scores. A key difference between "smart" and "wise" is that "wise" is not merely cerebral.. .it is that wisdom includes also the necessary practicality of common sense.|||wise sounds more like a long-term meaning, like an old person that lived long enough already knows what life is about, what's going to happen, and smart is like you think in that very moment of something pretty ingenious or intelligent|||Smart Person can mean different things a clever and cute in other parts, and a wise person is like a good Samaritan some one who likes to help|||wise means smarter than their years, smarter than the average person of the same age, like an old soul

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