Yesterday I had a very creative argument with my brother. He prefer intelligence while I prefer wisdom.

Wise as an owl, Smart as a rat

Intelligence versus Wisdom:

Let's say an intelligent person had never ride a bicycle in his life. He tries to use it but it will take him a while because it involved a learning process. He has to face trial and error before he can actually ride them out. A person full of wisdom somehow will relish this from his experience and ride away with little down time.

I have come to think that a wise person is always more philosophical than the intelligent person. As quoted in Dungeons & Dragons, a high wisdom character are usually monks, paladins, priest and clerics, for they posses high degree of patience to observe the rights and wrongs of the world. On the other hand, high intelligent people are usually wizard, sorcerer & thieves.

Imagine if two of these are merged:

Hi Wisdom & Lo Intelligence - a zealot monk
Lo Wisdom & Hi Intelligence - absent minded professor

Finally I come to believe that both are equally balance with the state of mind that they lived in. Both employ slightly different approach to resolve a situation, depending on the factors at hand. I guess it's good to have both...