There is an idea that wit (intellect, abundance of knowledge) works woe.
But this idea needs deeper understanding to «make things as clear as a bell». Wit in itself doesn't make anyone unhappy and generally, wit that has found wisdom, brings purely positive experience to its owner.
The problem here lies in the substitution of notions. The notion of wit includes different things, for instance wide knowledge and rich imagination. Imagination gives birth to too many desires. A person wants too much at once, but at the same time doesn't even know how to get it all. The situation when one knows what one wants but can't get it makes one unhappy.
A person who read too much but didn't do much.
A person who knows a lot but can't do much. Hence, it's a knowing Person as well as an Incapable Person.
A person who got to know about some opportunity but doesn't have enough knowledge about ways to achieve it. What's more, one may be weak in spirit and not have enough skills or power to reach goals. One may be too narrow-minded. Or one might have forgotten that it's necessary to indurate the spirit, the will and the body. What's more, reaching some goals demands galvanizing many people into action and being a great manager while our "intellectual type" of people who are self admiring for their wide knowledge, may hate people and be unable to work with them. And people, in their turn, may hate the intellectuals and dislike working with people of this kind.
It takes years of patient labour to gain skills for getting along and working with people. Besides the knowledge how to do it, one should learn to feel balance and moderation in everything, feel the instincts as well as both one's own and other people's strengths and weaknesses. Reading about it is one thing, but learning to feel it on one's own takes years of training.
Knowledge in itself is nothing. Knowledge is only valuable when being used in real life situations. But even using knowledge is not that easy. As one should try, train and study the details of using it.
A person who has lost the sense of moderation and gained knowledge but lost the skills. So now his knowledge whisper in his ear the desires that he doesn't have enough skills to fulfil.
It should be remembered that a truly wise person should be both knowing and skillful.
Thus, it's someone who knows what he wants and how to get it and has practical skills for getting what is wanted. Someone truly wise is always happy and always gets what one wants.
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Muhortova Natalie