What is wisdom?

[ADad]

<p>What is wisdom? </p>

<p>What are some attributes of a wise person?</p>

[tobeducated]

<p>Wisdom is the result of listening to others. Wisdom comes from a calm state within. Wisdom is often in short supply in the presence of teenagers.</p>

[mom2collegekids]

<p>Wisdom comes from age, experience, patience, listening, critical thinking, logical thinking, and the development of discernment skills. </p>

<p>Wisdom does not flourish in an atmosphere of impulsiveness, pleasure-seeking behavior, immaturity, irrational thinking, and selfishness.</p>

[mantori.suzuki]

<p>More importantly, what is love?</p>

<p>Baby, don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me…no more.</p>

<p>What is love?</p>

<p>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, uh.</p>

[blankmind]

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Wisdom does not flourish in an atmosphere of impulsiveness, pleasure-seeking behavior, immaturity, irrational thinking, and selfishness.

True, but often one must pass through those phases before they can arrive at wisdom.</p>

[lefthandofdog]

<p>accumulated knowledge</p>

[paying3tuitions]

<p>i dunno, but I can quote:

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<p>“Who is wise? He who learns from everybody.” Ben Zoma. Mishna: Avot 4.1</p>

<p>“Wisdom lifts the poor man’s head, and sets him among princes.” Apocrypha: Ben Sira, 11.1</p>

<p>“Seven characteristics distinguish the wise: he does not speak before his superior, does not interrupt, is not hasty to answer, asks and answers to the point, talks about first things first and about last things last, admits when he does not know, and acknowledges the truth.” Mishna: Avot 5.7</p>

<p>“Who is wise? He who foresees results.” Talmud: Tamid 32a</p>

<p>“With wisdom only you don’t go to market” Yiddish proverb</p>

<p>“Pain is the father, love the mother, of wisdom” Boerne, Fragmente und Aphoismen, l840 #203

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[littlegreenmom]

<p>I believe that real wisdom lies in realizing that one can never know everything. </p>

<p>And usually it comes around the time you realize your parents are smarter than you have previously given them credit for. ;)</p>

[orchestramom]

<p>Unattributed quote I came across a long time ago:</p>

<p>“Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say and 2) not saying it.”</p>

<p>(Has helped me bite my tongue more than once in dicey situations )</p>

[mantori.suzuki]

<p>Careful, orchestramom. I once posted, “He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.” It got me a flaming response from an overly-sensitive senior member of CC who bizarrely thought it was some kind of personal attack. I never did get an apology for that stupid outburst. You don’t want to provoke the same kind of behavior.</p>

<p>By the way, harboring this resentment would be the opposite of wisdom. I thought it might be helpful to provide a counterexample. :)</p>

[milkandsugar]

<p>Wisdom is taking ones experiences, pain, triumphs, joys, and sorrow, processing it and truly learning all the lessons from them. This is only accomplished by being open, intuitive and contemplative.
It is a gift.</p>

[DougBetsy]

<p>Wisdom is the ability to use past experience to give the best answer to a new question.</p>

[paying3tuitions]

<p>A wise person was my mother when she told me at 28 to stop chasing happiness, but instead seek wisdom. “Get thee a heart of wisdom…” Actually she phrased it, “As long as you’re learning something, you are never wasting your time” and she didn’t mean book learning. And BTW, she said, I’d become much happier without even trying, if I’d stop chasing “a happy life” and start chasing “a wise heart” as my life’s goal. Dang, she was right, too.</p>

<p>She never, ever, not even once said “do what makes you happy…” although for grandchildren that seems to be her new guiding principle.</p>