[SteveA]

Thanks for this thread, Isbskins1.

We're all motivated by desires - happiness, avoiding pain, comfort, instincts, etc.

But knowledge helps us in achieving these. Intelligence is often seen in a limited scope of simply knowing that 1+1=2, without considering what benefit/satisfaction is gained by believing/knowing this. Wisdom tends to imply useful knowledge on a broader view of life. It tends to be more subjective and less exact because happiness isn't something we can easily measure or all agree upon. We can all measure our weights and intelligently agree that some people are more heavy than others, and even correlate these to some extent with eating habits and health effects but we can't easily translate all this sampled data into individual happiness or understand much of the individual motivation that's behind all these actions.

Two very physically similar people, can be provided identical information about how exercise affects weight and in one person this may increase their levels of exercise, while in the other it may decrease it. The wisdom of each of these decisions depends upon both their intelligence to acquire the knowledge and the wisdom with which they use it. It could be both intelligent and wise for each of them to use this knowledge in different ways, though most people would see exercising more as the wisest decision, but that's not always true for everyone.