Intelligence vs. Wisdom

The problem of discussing "wisdom" is that everyone's had at least a few 
thoughts they consider "wise". In many cases they've gone through a lot 
of hell to acquire whatever lesson they learned, and they really don't 
want to hear that they've learned the wrong lesson from it. If you have 
the misfortune to meet an "intelligent" person who's learned the lesson 
that facility with verbal argument isn't smartness but rather "a fancier 
kind of stupid", as Spider Robinson put it, good luck ever convincing 
them that there's any kind of intelligence that actually works! They've 
given up their pride to come to that conclusion, they've been hit over 
the head by stark reality, they've gone through hell to arrive at that 
one crumb of wisdom and by damn they've earned the right to be smug 
about it. If you're foolish enough to think there's any kind of 
intelligence that really works, you must not have gone through what they 
did; you must be too proud to admit your own folly; you must not be 
wise. I don't know how to dig people out of that trap