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Using the tomato analogy:

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing that a tomato does not belong in a fruit salad.

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That's just salsa

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Sigh

Found the bard

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Glad someone got the reference!

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Wisdom is knowing that a tomato does not belong in a fruit salad.

Cherry tomatoes would like to have a talk with you.

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Never had cherry tomatoes in a fruit salad, but I'll try it in the future

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It's very common in Asia. It comes with a sweet mayonnaise dressing.

https://pic8.co/sh/17c35f.png

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I knew a Chinese lady who continually put cherry tomatoes in the fruit salad at her breakfast restaurant. Customers and employees alike would try to tell her it was off-putting for White people, but she would always smile and say "but tomatoes are sweet". Nothing and no one could convince her to stop. She went out of business a few years later.

What's the fucking deal with Chinese people and not understanding tomatoes don't go in the fuit salad?

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What's the fucking deal with Asians.

They like their fruit salad with cherry tomatoes.

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Wisdom is experience absent the clouding of emotion.

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You've just described . Damn I miss that old fart!

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

is the only person who ever had the courage to tell me not to microwave a loaded gun.

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I like to think intelligence is the measure for "raw brain power" or ability to hadle tasks that require thinking.

And for wisdom I would say it's measuer in ability to learn from experience and make future decisions based on it, and also how in tune with your intuition you are.

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While my brain is surprisingly fantastic, it has neither raw computation power, nor the ability to make good decisions in the time of need.

I don't know exactly how to describe it, but I have been gifted with a sort of intellect that exceeds most humans.

It is a worthless little bit of understanding.

A filthy piece of intuition.

Glimpsing at the Universe and being able to see the Shadow behind it.

I get what is there, and what is not to get.

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Brain is not some simple tool like, a hammer or a screwdriver.

Each of our brains is like a toolbox. We all get random tools that come with it, pick up and lose some tools along the way, and make some of our own.

>nor the ability to make good decisions in the time of need

If the situation you are faced with is not something you've deal with before, your brain can get frozen in a decision making process frantically looking for an experience from your past to compare the current situation to and tell you how to act. Example would be that some people that have lived peaceful lives tend to freeze in place when confronted with violence for the first time in life.

It is a worthless little bit of understanding. A filthy piece of intuition.

Intuition and understanding are so rare in today's world that we should put them on display in a museum, under a glass bell, so that future generations can see how it was to be a human.

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That's not wisdom or intelligence. Intelligence is being able to apply what you know to new situations.

Any monkey can learn to memorize some steps, like riding a bike or driving a car even. When something unexpected happens that makes the memorized routine suddenly inapplicable you see who's intelligent and who isn't. The retards are lost, but the intelligent people who understand how things work know what to do.

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It is like allowing a monkey to ride a unicycle over a linear tight-wire above a two dimensional sheet of paper populated by two dimensional beings.

Perspective doesn't matter, it will all end in disaster.

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wisdom is the correct application of knowledge.

intelligence, plainly put, is merely mental aptitude. (innate ability to learn something quickly, etc.) tons of people are intelligent within our society, yet, are still lazy idiots because they haven't applied any of that ability towards anything at all.

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You're born with intelligience (or lack thereof). You gain wisdom through experience.

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Intelligence can be gained by education (reading, research, study, confined) but wisdom can be gained in the absence of those. Venn Diagram

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wisdom is accumulated intelligence

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Intelligence is knowing how to do something. Wisdom is knowing if you should.

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Intelligence is the cpu power and ram amount, including prebuilt functions bus hertz etc. Wisdom is what’s on the hard drive.

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I would separate the two as:

Intelligence is a measure of one's ability to calculate, to learn, to remember, to understand, and raw problem solving.

Wisdom is a measure of one's ability to be critical. Decided what is worth learning. What is worth calculating. What is worth spending time on. What is worth remembering. If the current problem truly is the real problem or perhaps there is a deeper issue at hand that should be solved first.

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