Hypersensitivity

Could you explain why you have added "courage" to the Wisdom Equation. Do you mean the integrity to make wise choices when they are not the easiest choices?

That and the integrity to accept the reality of your own perceptions.

I know many intelligent people that fall into the most pathetic errors.
They allow emotion and hope to dictate their actions and beliefs, even when their mind cannot find reason to or it flat out rejects their assumtions as questionable, if not absurd.

I originally was trying to figure out why people of above average intelligence could exhibit naivite and stupidity in everyday life.
I came to the conclusion that it was emotion clouding their judgment and forcing them into illusionary realities.
A psychological corruptive agent that prohibited the mind from accepting its awareness.

I think religion owes much to this human deficiency.

Wisdom is in knowing that you know nothing.