Ah young grasshopper, you are confusing wisdom with intelligence with. One can be wise but have limited intelligence. What is lacked in intelligence can be made up for with wisdom. It doesn't take much intelligence to ace a multiple choice test as long as one has wisdom. One can usually remove 2 options relying on nothing but wisdom alone, This improves the odds from 1 in 4 to 1 in 2, a 50 - 50 chance. Wisdom alone will not be very effective for write in answers though. You either have the knowledge or you don't. Most people equate knowledge with intelligence but they aren't quite the same. Knowledge is raw data, information, fact. Intelligence is the attaining of that knowledge. One can be intelligent, but without the wisdom to put it to practical use it is worthless. On the other hand, if one has the wisdom he might be able to muddle through without the intelligence or knowledge, drawing on past similar experiences to deduce a means of making the situation work.
Ahh but then we debate "common" knowledge and what's thought to be raw data or knowledge may still be incorrect. There are many "truths and facts" accepted by most that are in reality not correct to begin with. This is where philosophy comes in.



