WISDOM VS. INTELLIGENCE

Rip Parker
7 min readJul 2, 2022

AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL EXPLORATION REGARDING THE ROLE OF FEELING

“I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is”, Forrest Gump.

A person can have wisdom without “intelligence”. He may be unable to accumulate, organize, assess, and implement significant amounts of data, yet he may inherently know the secrets of the Universe, the highest standards of human interaction, the difference between good and not good. He may be truly creative, and know peace. He may know Love.

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Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics