There is a kind of maturity that goes with development of practical intelligence alone. This maturity revolves around efficiency, looking for the fastest, the more advanced, the cheapest, the best ways and so on. With this kind of direction of maturity in relation to ways of thinking, belief of superiority most likely emerges. A person is rewarded by succeeding immediately and those who do not succeed are deemed failure. As practical intelligence grows alone in a person, his tolerance of failure gradually shrinks. His sense of superiority increases, as well as his perception of inferiority of himself when he fails or of other people when they fail. However a situation like this cannot be blamed on increasing practical intelligence, but to the seldom mentioned lack of appreciation of wholeness, of the interconnections which serve as the binding forces of wisdom. Both are applications of knowledge but practical intelligence lacks something important which wisdom has - love, charity and forgiveness.

If one loves humanity, he will maintain self-respect as well as respect of fellowmen even in the presence of shortcomings, mistakes and failures. Since respect is a personal disposition and cannot be immediately known by others, it becomes a sign of charity. And if one has charity at the level of love, then he can forgive and stay humble.

What happens to practical intelligence without love, charity and forgiveness? It brings stress, frustration, resentment and anger and gradually eats away the spiritual vitality of the person who act as if the only valuable thing in the world is intelligence.

It is becoming clearer now that wisdom is practical intelligence in the context of love, charity and forgiveness.