How would you explain the difference between being wise and being smart?

I have met people and this is certainly not to be insulting or nasty that are very smart due to being educated. Now educated is a wonderful thing but then so is experience. I am thinking now about some old farmers I have met that do not have formal education but because of their choice to follow that career path they can be very wise if you get a chance to talk to them. They know life and they understand the land. Some educated people however though I do appreciate their knowledge and expertise sometimes lack common sense or just can not see the big picture.

I can, Me! I know a lot of facts about history and algebra but I am no wise. Wisdom comes from experience and smarts from a book. One can be wise and Illiterate but you can't be smart without instruction of some sort. I am not as wise as I am smart but in time... if I get the time, I will become wise.

A smart person knows how to replace a light fixture. A wise one will make sure the power is turned off first.

I believe people could be very smart and stupid at the same time. Being wise comes with age. The longer we live the wiser we become. I do not think intelligence has anything to do with being wise. Now, when I said you could be smart and stupid at the same time, I mean a person that is super intelligent has very little or no common sense. And without common sense, you are not very life smart.

Hello. Being smart entails that a person is knowledgeable about something. He uses his knowledge very well to the things he s doing. Being wise does not need to be very knowledgeable. A wise person understands the things around him and all the more he'll appreciate the knowledge he has for his continuous learning.

In my view wise man must think.When one thinks he cannot be always smart.Smart man is more mechanical and less thinking.Hitler was smart but we cannot say he was wise. [Mohkanari]

To me, wisdom is how you use the "smarts" you have. Smarts can be learned. Wisdom is innate, but grows with practice.

I would think someone who is smart or not wise to be someone who has a high iq and yet got herself taken in by a boyfriend. For instance, someone who lent her boyfriend who was an obvious con artist, money, and expect him to pay her back just because they were so much in love. I see so much of that on Judge Judy and she ask them with all their intelligence, and that they had gone to University etc, how could they be taken. The trouble is for many of these girls it is not the first time.

I have a daughter that is very smart....high grades in college even...deans list but not very wise. Or maybe you would call it lacking common sense....and I think common sense makes us wise.....in many ways! Wise is also the ability to cipher things out....and to be able to help others with good advice.

To me the difference is, being smart is learned, being wise is a gift. For example, one won't know how to factor squares in math unless they are taught, and learn. But common sense, a gift is wisdom, knowing how to make decisions is G♥d's gift to those who ask. Also, I know that one doesn't have to be old to have wisdom, I have known young people who are wiser than many older people I know. All in all, I rather have wisdom than to be smart...

Hi bagarad! I think being smart is more on the intelligence while being wise is more on wisdom. A person who has high intelligence quotient is smart. But a person who knows how to distinguish what is right and wrong is wise. A person graduated with high grades can be a smart person but if boasts too much of all of his achievements, he is not wise at all.

I think that a smart person who is not wise can be defined as a person due to the oh so smartness they have are not willing to take risks. I also believe that for instance the person can be so college graduated, sort of sheltered from the world and rather spend loads of money for the best and not necessarily see that spending less may be wiser.

The difference between of them is being smart knows many things but being wise knows how to make a good judgement like in the case of Solomon in which 2 ladies are claimed to be the mother of an infant but solomon got pissed off and decided to cut the infant to half so that both of them will take the infant, but surprisingly one of the 2 ladies rushed towards the infant to stop Solomon to cut the infant afterwards he revoked his action of cutting the infant so it's a good decision of the wise person.

The difference between smart and wise as it is for me is that smart can be seen as something that's determined by genes ( you are smart since you're born, or you're not ). However being wise on the contrary can be achieved. People get wiser by everything they experience in life and learn from. That is what makes the difference between smart and wise (from my point of view).

I have a nephew and can fix any thing from a car to a computer. I cal that smart. But when it comes to my niece and does not show it. She has left for another man over 3 times and he still takes her back, she also has 2 kids by other after they were married. I do not call that smart.

Hi, It's hard for me to list any example here,cause I haven't found anyone is wise surroud me. In my opinion,smart means she/he is clever,involved with IQ,sometimes it's just born,sometimes we could get smart by getting education.... And wise is much more advanced,it comes from IQ and EQ,people who I think wise don't have to be high educated,but should have mature and special enterpretation of life,and could handle with everything well,they seldom get angry,sorrowful....always keep peace,and they are proved to be correct at last. So,that's what a wise person should express.

Hi, It's hard for me to list any example here,cause I haven't found anyone is wise surroud me. In my opinion,smart means she/he is clever,involved with IQ,sometimes it's just born,sometimes we could get smart by getting education.... And wise is much more advanced,it comes from IQ and EQ,people who I think wise don't have to be high educated,but should have mature and special enterpretation of life,and could handle with everything well,they seldom get angry,sorrowful....always keep peace,and they are proved to be correct at last. So,that's what a wise person should express.

In a sense, I think that you would be correct. This is very possible that a person would be the smartest person in the world but not be wise. I think that there are a many educated people who in the matters of books and strict data, could make your head spin. In other matters however, they are as blissfully naive as the next person. In fact they might be more blissfully naive. I had a teacher in school who knew his subject matter but seemed to be a bit scatter brained otherwise shall we said. He could recite everything with absolute clarity but with other matters, he would get hung up like you would not believe. He was smart, but rather not wise. I think that you'd find many people who are like that these days.