Who was wiser: Confucius or Buddha and why?

Question

My vote is for Confucius

Answer 1

One thing is to read about them and another is to put into your real life those practices that make to you logical sense and you are able to do, specifically those teachings that can solve this for you.  I personally find both to be of the greatest help in life and many of their teachings reflect into our daily lives so fully that to choose one is in a way not excluding the other.  Both, in their extreme practices are hard, but finally, in the end you must decide and make your own path with these as guides.

Answer 2

Confucius would win on Dancing with the Stars, but Buddha would win a smackdown (he levitates) . . . .    

The question presumes you understand the premise. What does "wiser" actually mean?

Whatever "wiser" means neither confucius or Buddha believed in one God ruling over mortals; Confucius believed in the concept of heaven, earth and man, and Buddha would, categorically deny that there was any one God.

Answer 3

Which of two fruits from the same tree is the better? Actually, the fruits have been numberless, because THIS tree always stood.

.....Nathan,look into it once more - it takes in both of your comments before they were put. Fruits vary somewhat; in itself, looked at closely, every fruit, every blade of grass, is different from the next of its kind, but the essence in each case is the same.

Answer 4

If you knew what a buddha actually is and actually tried studying the scope of the buddha dharma, and you'll be likely to see that buddhism covers more ground and is much deeper than people even realize. You need to really look into it to see. Just seeing a commercial, or reading a quick wiki page, or hear-say, is not a way to evaluate the deepness of the buddha dharma. Frankly, it's hard to say whether or not you've been judging this whole question based on two wiki-pages and packet full of cheerios.

Come on.

Answer 5

There is no wisdom without worship.

They both lived their lives (worshiped) in search for truth.

P.1009 - §6 4. The sixth century before Christ. Many men arose to proclaim truth in this, one of the greatest centuries of religious awakening ever witnessed on Earth. Among these should be recorded Gautama, Confucius, Lao-tse, Zoroaster, and the Jainist teachers. The teachings of Gautama have become widespread in Asia, and he is revered as the Buddha by millions. Confucius was to Chinese morality what Plato was to Greek philosophy, and while there were religious repercussions to the teachings of both, strictly speaking, neither was a religious teacher; Lao-tse envisioned more of God in Tao than did Confucius in humanity or Plato in idealism. Zoroaster, while much affected by the prevalent concept of dual spiritism, the good and the bad, at the same time definitely exalted the idea of one eternal Deity and of the ultimate victory of light over darkness.