How do I become a wise person?

Answer 1

Honestly give your life to Christ. God formed the world with His love. It is set up in His wisdom. Therefore wisdom is from God.

Answer 2

Are you sure you want to be wise? Not to say that there aren't intelligent people in these yahoo forums, but are you sure your answer is going to come from these one-liner responses? I mean, wisdom comes from internal contemplation, right?

Answer 3

Learn how to find information. Practice finding it and you will be very wise.

Answer 4

question each thing you recognize till it falls to products and also you don't recognize what you theory you knew anymore. Then, you recognize something. as well that, think of experience, yours and others'. The more suitable you do this the wiser you get. i imagine it really is how all of us get wiser as we strengthen older.

Answer 5

Screw up every new project or undertaking at least once before getting it right.

And if you manage to screw things up *multiple* times before getting it right, you'll be that much wiser.

Answer 6

Axiom might actually be retarded, so I'll forgive his ignorance (or lack of wisdom) due to that plausibility.

Wisdom is not derived from God. Why not trounce the notion with logic?

Let's suppose, momentarily, that it were, and that every man were imbued with a certain, but unequal quantity of this attribute 'wisdom.' If that were the case, then the wisest of men are predestined to be as such, and your innate capacity for enlightenment is immutable. With this in mind, only two possibilities exist: you are born with all the wisdom you will ever acquire, in which case, you cannot become wise, and your quest for sageness is fruitless; or, you can develop your natural 'gift from God' through experience (simply aging does not beget sagacity, as is often believed by the misguided, low-minded masses of the elderly).

Now, let us further suppose that experience and wisdom are not intrinsically linked, and as Axiom purports, God and faith are the only means to build within yourself a greater ken of the world. If this were the case, nothing you did outside of meditation on the Lord's wishes could possibly bring you any closer to enlightenment. It follows, then, that you have no innate capacity to learn from your previous experiences. If you burn yourself on the stove, you do not grow in wisdom, you do not learn from your error, and you do not revise your thoughts on touching hot stoves because it was not done through faith in the Lord. Consequently, you burn yourself each time you use the stove. Obviously, no man completely lacks the ability to discern the wrongness of his methods and revise them.

The counterargument to this is this: the Lord wishes men to grow in wisdom, and predetermines a lifelong rat maze for men to navigate in order to improve His creation (the particular being in question, that is). This predestination theology, however, stands in contrast to the concept of free-will, and becomes circular in its reasoning (and actually begets utter torpor, if people believe their lives are outside of their own command).

In either case, you're either incapable of becoming wise, or there must be some direct connection between wisdom and unswerving, everpresent faith in God. The latter, though, is contrasted by history. The wisest of men were not always the holiest of men--faith and wisdom are not, therefore, intrinsically linked.

Now suppose that mankind as a whole is granted a uniform measure of wisdom. If, then, we are unable to grow in wisdom, then all men are equally wise throughout their entire lives (a contingency refuted by the varied and many mistakes made by all men and their corresponding adaptability). Necessarily, then, we are able to grow in wisdom, but only through God (according to Axiom). But if each is given the same measure of wisdom, and we can grow in wisdom only through God, then all sages must believe in God. Not all people, however, believe in God. They, therefore, must not have any ability to grow in wisdom, and consequently live their lives as dolts. This, however, is countered often enough empirically that futher examples are simply superfluous.

We have concluded, then, that our hypothesis is false. Wisdom is not linked to any measure of faith, and I'm willing to call Axiom 'stupid' for holding that belief to be legitimate.

If you seek wisdom, you must at times be an idealist, at times a realist, at times a philosopher, and at times a carpenter. You learn through doing, through reading, and by being. You learn the value of verbage through silence, and you learn the value of silence when steeped in sound. You learn the value of disbelief through faith, and of faith through disbelief. Wisdom is garnered in many ways.

I once read that '...the truly wise know all men as one, and return with gladness good for evil done.' That's the best advice a 20-year-old can give.

Answer 7

Lots of trial and error until one saw the error of their ways, I would think!

Answer 8

By doing hard work u will be a more wiser .

Answer 9

Recognize you are a fool.

Answer 10

we are all wise....it is usually our actions that make us stupid