The difference between wisdom and intelligence

I was thinking about this today because of something someone brought up to me...

Intelligence is valued in our society. It combines knowledge, experience, innate reasoning skills, logic and more. It's very useful in work, solving problems; it is logical. Very few people think they're dumb, and assume their intelligent. This leads to a lot of arrogrance and grandiosity, to the idea that you have the right answers in life because you came to it logically. (This reminds me of Robert McNamara, the Security of Defense under Kennedy and LBJ. He was one of the brightest minds of any generation, and through logic and intelligence decided that the Vietnam War was a great idea. Worked out pretty well.)

Wisdom is something completely different. There is a belief in our world that somehow the older you get, the wiser you are. But, and this sounds condescending as hell, I've spoken to far too many older adults who may be very intelligent, but don't have any wisdom, and I learned long ago that while their advice is appreciated, it should be with a grain of salt.

Wisdom is not grandiose and arrogant like intelligence often is; it doesn't purpose to have the right answers like intelligence which will use logic, knowledge and experience to come up with the right answer. Wisdom is humble. It knows that there are no right answers in life. Wisdom doesn't come from the mind like intelligence does. It is deeper. Zen Buddhists believe it comes from the hara. It comes when we're able to turn of our minds and feel things deeply and calmly and with humility.

Intelligence, in my humble opinion, is overvalued. I try to think of the mind as a computer. It is great at solving problems. But should it be used for more? The deeper and most important things in life have little to do with intelligence. It's much more about humility and feeling things out. It comes from an understanding of not only one's self but the world around us.