Ep. 340 - Smart People without Wisdom Are Fools | Fireside Chat
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
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The world does not lack brains. There are many smart people, but few are wise. College professors are often bright, well-read, and full of knowledge, yet most are fools, and they do a lot of damage. Wisdom is everything-we need it now more than ever, but how do we get it?
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Exactly. "Knowledge" without *wisdom* is worse than worthless, it's almost always *evil.*
I think thats clearly demonstrated in dennis prager.
Wisdom and intelligence are two entirely distinct human qualities. To use a modern analogy, intelligence is like a computer’s processor speed; wisdom is the quality of its software; knowledge is what’s stored on the hard drive.
*Knowledge* without *Wisdom* is like water in the sand.
-A Guinean Proverb
Whereas wisdom without knowledge has been compared to silver in a mine.
If you read the book of Proverbs you’ll get wisdom and of course the Gospels.
I think it's emotional maturity that is the problem, not lack of wisdom. They teach the opposite of stoicism in schools, it's all about listening to your feelings.
Yes but stoicism can be very cold. Stoic doctors kill their patients with regularity now, starkly during covid.
Talk to any counselor and they will tell you that your feelings can betray you. Wisdom is an effective and appropriate use of knowledge. A person can be emotionally mature but lack the knowledge to make a wise decision.
@@dlsdyer9071 You lost me at your first four words, emotional maturity is emotional awareness and control. If you have that, you have clarity, this enables you to make the best decision.
@@jerrycote1661 Your confusing stifling your emotions with emotional awareness, and control. If you have this, it will allow you to use your emotions productively not ignore them.
@@BrynneMuir I think wisdom comes from life experience, your willingness to learn from your mistakes, and the ability to admit we all know very little.
I agree that your ability for self-reflection, self analysis, and critique is something that can be improved over time, so wisdom does help.
To me, I define emotional maturity as a goal that I am continually trying to reach, my initial comment is directed to what is being pushed into our schools to our children and the young adults in college.
They are intelligent but they are not being taught anything that will help them began on their path to emotional maturity, in fact it is just the opposite, they are being taught that their feelings define themselves, are meant to drive their decisions, and that they are not responsible for their actions.
As a result, they lack any emotional awareness, control, or true empathy, this comes from the self-centered notion that their feelings are what matter the most.
*"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."* -- C. S. Lewis
Wisdom came with age, with practice, with critical thinking, with hard work and humble attitude, with ethics and moral, selfcontrol and frugality, with virtuosity and mind clarity. ALL THOSE THING ARE HATED BY MODERN SOCIETY.
Criminality in South Africa is a huge problem. With an average of 77 murders per day one has to be extremely vigilant every day. The ANC government is in fact a government government formed by terrorism.
How did it get that way? You ignore the colonization by whites, oppression by white or the fact, the white minority owns/control 90% land and the economy!
I came here for the title thinking it would be about what I was thinking. My question is, do protesting students have the right to not get doxxed? I saw a video of a protester keeping someone out of a public place they had taken over and she was saying they had a right to not be identified and linked with their actions. The student protesters are our smartest but, is it wise to do things you fear being held accountable for?
Traveling is expensive. Even driving to another state ain’t cheep.
My grandmother used to say "all of the education in the world ain't doing you a damned bit of good if you don't have basic common sense.
I wonder if he was scoping out places in South Africa.? 🤔
There's only two ways to get unraveled; one is to sleep, the other is travel.
True. Nothing opens peoples eyes more than seeing things for themselves as opposed to being told how things are... getting a decent nights sleep definitely helps. God knows staying *_"Woke"_* too long can seriously mess with your brain.
He didn’t say anything about wisdom. 🧐
I enjoy your podcast, informative, thoughtful. Thank you
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I love to travel and do it as much I can, but I suspect many, if not most, people can’t afford it. One less expensive (although not overseas) option for us is rv’ing throughout the US, although many people can’t afford that either.
Hello, “highly educated” ... what I call “fully indoctrinated”.
Conservative = Anti-Learning Sorry, but you won´t find much science in your bible.
Especialy those smart people who are indanger of the judgement.
Love the move to personal sites & apps (but please still stay on CZcams and promote them). I joined the Skywatch TV app because I like their news reports, health shows, & special reports. I might have to add PragerU if my phone has enough space. You guys are a classic and give highly valuable content.
To know how to use knowledge is wisdom.call someone a fool is missuse of knowledge, thats to assume that person is without God.
Even if a sparrow falls to the earth, the father is there
That's so nice you met kind black people in South Africa. Hopefully with a little more world travel you'll gain the wisdom that secular liberal governments that you despise actually make black people happy compared to conservative ones that secretly despise them.
What do you mean kind black people?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
" I want mommy I want milk"
1st, 9 May 2024
But what is wisdom? And don't answer with "fear of God", because that's not appealing to those who don't believe in your god.
Truth doesn't have to be appealing. If it were, everyone would believe it.
Dennis Prager, the biggest fool of all... Or maybe Ben Shapiro...🙃🙃🙃
Hi..I'm Jesus Christ God in the flesh I'm coming for you and your friends.
Bla bla bla BS
Yes
Dennis, I will challenge you anytime on what day is the correct Sabbath.
You've been betrayed by your rabbis fathers. If you think Saturday's the 7th day of the week. You have not done your homework. You're wasting your time writing books but right under your nose you can't even get the Sabbath, correct.