For you...what is wisdom?

Answer 1

I consider Wisdom as the application of knowledge, in one sense, you acquire knowledge, when that piece of knowledge is part of your life, embedded in your subconscious that you do it out of conviction then you have gained some level of wisdom.

For instance you might know that you should take care of your body, exercise and eat healthy, but do you actually do it?. when that piece of knowledge is part of your life, it has the power to transform your life, and it's not a just a concept on your mind.

So I guess this leads us to our infinite path of gaining more
wisdom, and may be that's because enlightenment is mentioned as the nothingness in the mind. Because it's all in your life working and changing the world around you.

peace!

Answer 2

Wisdom is knowing that you still have a LOT to know.

Answer 3

Wisdom is a special kind of knowledge culled from experience and deep contemplation and thought. It's the kind of knowledge that is superior to ordinary human inteligence because It has a power that inteligence itself- lacks on its own. It's special knowledge

Answer 4

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Answer 5

a respect and acknowledgment of God is the beginning of wisdom ...

Answer 6

The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight. Common sense; good judgment. Right out of the dictionary. I completely agree with it.

Answer 7

The essential feature is that science works, and why this is so. The subject is much too involved to get into here, which is why I am writing a book about it.

Answer 8

What is wisdom? Ideally, wisdom is total perspective -- seeing an object, event, or idea in all its pertinent relationships.

Only God can possess such total perspective. The first lesson of philosophy is that philosophy is the study of any part of experience in the light of our whole experience; the second lesson is that the philosopher is a very small part in a very large whole. Philosopher means not a "possessor" but a "lover" of wisdom, so we can only seek wisdom never to possess, but only to desire. Perhaps it is more blessed to desire than to possess.

Rain falls; you mourn that your tennis games must be postponed; you are not a philosopher. But you console yourself with the thought, "How grateful the scorched earth will be for the rain! How lovely the flowers will smell!" You have seen the event in a larger perspective, and you are beginning to approach wisdom. You have a terribly unpleasant experience that you handle poorly. Instead of moping on your failure you look at this as a trial run and then make the necessary adjustments.

In a total perspective, all evil is seen as subjective, the misfortune of one self or part; we cannot say whether it is evil for the group, or for humanity, or for life. I will admit that the current evil of fascism we face makes it difficult to be completely subjective. A mosquito does not think it a tragedy that you should be bitten by a mosquito. It may be painful for a man to die for his country, but GWB safe on his TX farm, thinks it very fitting and beneficial (for all the wrong reasons alas). Death is a boon to fresh life, replacing the old and exhausted with one young and fresh. Death may be the greatest invention that life has ever made for more than one reason.

How does one acquire a larger perspective or higher over view? Start by living perceptively. This means putting down the cell phone and leaving the computer and interacting with nature and other people. A farmer, faced with a fateful immensity day after day, becomes patient and wise noticing the smallest differences. Study things in space through science; partly in this way Einstein became wise. The universal perspective is very important in wisdom. Study events in time through history.

Cultivate an overview of history as far back as you can comprehend. This does not happen over night. History is the only true philosophy, the only true psychology; thereby we learn both the nature and the possibilities of man. The past is not dead; it is the sum of the factors operating in the present. The present is the past rolled up into a moment for action; the past is the present unraveled in history for our understanding. This is why the Illuminati rewrite history by controlling our educational facilities. History is written, and rewritten, by the victors and those who propagandize.

Invite the great men and women of the past into your homes. Put their works or lives on your shelves as books, their architecture, sculpture, and painting on your walls as pictures; let them play their music for you. Attune your ears to Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy.

Make room in your rooms for Confucius, Rumi, Thoreau, Buddha, Plato, Christ, Seneca, Heloise, Shakespeare, Bacon, Spinoza, Anatole France, Albert Schweitzer. Give them half an hour each day; slowly they will share in remaking you to perspective, tolerance, wisdom, and a more avid love of a deepened life. Don't think of these men as dead; they will be alive hundreds of years after we are gone. They live in our psyches forever. These are the great statesmen, poets, artists, philosophers, women, lovers, saints whom humanity keeps alive in its memory.

Plato is there, leading his students through geometry to philosophy; Spinoza is there, polishing his lenses, inhaling dust and exhaling wisdom; Goethe is there, thirsting like Faust for knowledge and loveliness, and falling in love at seventy-three; Mendelssohn is there, teaching Goethe to savor Beethoven; Shelley is there, with peanuts in one pocket and raisins in the other and content with them as a well-balanced meal; they are all there in that amazing treasure house of our race, that veritable Fort Knox of wisdom and beauty; patiently there they wait for you.

Wisdom is like a droplet of spray, proudly poised for a moment on the crest of a wave, undertaking to analyze the sea. Ideally, wisdom is total perspective. The skill of seeing an object, event, or idea in all its pertinent relationships. True wisdom sees things, in view of eternity

Answer 9

The ability to discern and make the right choice, and to know your reasons behind doing so.

Answer 10

A wise person knows that they don't know anything at all.

EDIT: Lol, Zarathurstra! By my standard, you are quite wise.