What is Wisdom? 47 Articles

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by Michael Patrick

Wisdom is a quiet mystery that escapes quick definition. It's a deep and enduring ability to do the right thing at the right time for another person, a group, or a culture. How does one do that? Ah, therein lies the rub...read more

by Charles Bobbitt

It is a popular belief that intelligence is the ability to gain knowledge, but wisdom is the ability to use knowledge. At first glance, this definition of wisdom seems both simple and profound. On closer inspection, though...read more

by Lesley Mason

As with many abstract concepts, understanding what wisdom is commences with an understanding of what it is not. It is not KNOWLEDGE. That is merely an accumulation of facts, a store of data which could equally well be...read more

by Orestes J. Gonzalez

The task of formulating an answer to the question "What is wisdom?" is not an easy one. The Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the multiplicity of meanings of "wisdom" with a circular definition: "Wisdom is the quality ...read more

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by Carla Baron

What is wisdom? Wisdom is the accumulstion of ones knowledge and experience. It takes years to develp wisdom, true wisdom. There is a huge difference between knowledge and wisdom for they are not the same. One can have kn...read more

by AJ Lat

Wisdom is so powerful...it changes lives and destinies. In a moment clarity comes and something you have tried to understand makes total sense. "You ALWAYS seem to know just the right words to say to help me sort thin...read more

by Lykaios

Out of knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom. I have always found wisdom the most difficult to define. However, it doesn't stop me from me from trying. As most of us may agree, knowledge is the acquiring of information be...read more

by Jeremy Jameson

Wisdom is quite simply applied knowledge. It is knowledge that has been proven to one's self through personal experience, whether before or after learning of the concept intellectually. Wisdom tells us not only how somet...read more

by Kenneth Schortgen Jr

Wisdom has always been misinterpreted by man and society in the course of philosophical discussion. Wisdom goes hand in hand with both knowledge and experience and the TRUE definition of Wisdom is the ability to apply kno...read more

by Tamsin Kerr

There is a Sufi story in which a village asks a nearby wise woman for help. She asks them, do you know the solution?' When the villages say no', she says, then you're not ready to hear it.' Still in trouble a month later, ...read more

by Barton Mercer

Careful prudence should be used in an attempt to define wisdom. Methods such as lamentations of past family members and quotes of memorable thinkers will come up severely short of success. Quoteable Quotes Dissect...read more

by P Vandegrift

Wisdom appears to be comprised of two separate words, wise and kingdom. The personal journey to find the Kingdom of Wise can take many paths and many years. Just because one is an elder, it does not automatically make them...read more

by Bhavasindhu Dasa

Wisdom is the culmination of a life lived in the pursuit of truth, by means of proper aesthetic, dramatic, ethical, and epistemological inquiry. It is the clarity which comes from a long-term commitment to right thought an...read more

by Kester Igwe

Wisdom is simply the ability to know better a decision to be made or a step to be taken for a peaceful atmosphere and satisfaction to man, it does bring people into a communual understanding to achieving successfully and p...read more

by Dennet Krishnan

What is wisdom? One can only quote the wisest statement of all time when attempting to grasp the entirety of wisdom. "All I know is that I know nothing at all". How essential is that it in everyday life? Too many do not...read more

by Mariya G

A man once said, "the only thing I know is that I don't know." The quote loses something in translation from Ancient Greek but the meaning is undeniably clear. In fact, Socrates maintained that the more he learned the more...read more

by Mayra M

Wonder preceeds wisdom because there are so many things that you don't know, so many ways that you don't know about, so much to see, to understand and to experience. One lifetime is never enough. It's just not enough. To w...read more

by D.L. Fletch

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts and information, True Wisdom is the practical application of those facts in everyday life. Wisdom is something that is learned over time through experience in life. It is not easily...read more

by Paul Bovis

What is Wisdom? One of the most well known quotes for wisdom comes from 1 Kings 3, where in the following verses King Solomon cast a decision:- 23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and ...read more

by Zane Wyrick

Wisdom... a concept that is so abstract, it is the basis of philosophy. Wherein, philosophy is the love of wisdom. One could best define wisdom, though, as having high amounts of experience and knowledge, and using this to...read more