What is the relation between wisdom and emotions?

Answer 1

Pure Intellect and Emotions are almost mutually exclusive. Wisdom, on the otherhand, has a very close association with Emotions.

A person without Emotions can never become Wise. A Wise person can control their Emotions or at least how these Emotions are expressed. These require experience. Experience requires time. This is why most people with Wisdom are older.

Answer 2

Love is an emotion. So is compassion. Both of these are a part of wisdom as is understanding and and insight.

Wisdom is a combination of Knowledge, Experience, and Love.

A person can have a great deal of knowledge but have no love in their heart.

A person can have a great deal of love and not be able to tell which end is up.

A person can have galaxy wide experiences and yet be without understanding.

It takes Knowledge, Experience, and Love to be wise. Often wisdom is very simple.

Answer 3

Emotions are closely tied to intuition of natural physical
response; emotion is ill-suited for structured communication.
Wisdom is experience and knowledge of that experience.
As an individual experiences more that individual requires
less intuition of those experiences. Wisdom becomes the
moderator of emotion; under what conditions are the
emotions appropriate. Emotions are intensely expressive,
but can lack focus. Wisdom brings focus to the emotion.

Answer 4

Emotions drive away wisdom, but wisdom does allow a limited play of emotions for firing up a purpose.

Answer 5

Emotions inform the wise, but control the unwise. The wisest among us are usually very good at understanding people, empathizing with their point of view. Their emotions and the emotions of others are tools to understanding. On the other hand, the unwise are simply guided by what they feel and act accordingly, often in short sighted, self centered ways.

Answer 6

Wisdom is that virtue that allows us to appreciate that the emotions must be at the service of reason or one cannot realize the purpose of one's nature.

Answer 7

Human behavior flows from three main sources: Desire, Emotion, and Knowledge....Emotion is HOW they're both, desire and knowledge, built in to form your own personality. Emotion is how you FEEL your desire to express wisdom. You can see, for example, sarcastic Nietzsche, political Confucius, academic Kant, etc. They all expressed their genius through different emotional traits.

Good luck!

Answer 8

wisdom for me is intelligence built up on facts we have learned and experiences. Whether we use this to our advantage or not is controlled not by us, but our emotions. often the irrationality of these blasted things messes things up!!! but hey ho emotions are also a tool for joining things!!

Answer 9

Living; Seeing the nature of the 'end' of it helps very much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_Erickson

Stage One Oral-Sensory: from birth to one, trust vs. mistrust, feeding;
Stage Two Muscular-Anal: 1-3 years, autonomy vs. shame, toilet training;
Stage Three Locomotor: 3-6 years, initiative vs. inadequacy, independence;
Stage Four Latency: 6-12 years, industry vs. inferiority, school;
Stage Five Adolescence: 12-18 years, identity vs. confusion, peer relationships;
Stage Six Young Adulthood: 18-40 years, intimacy vs. isolation, love relationships;
Stage Seven Middle Adulthood: 40-65 years, generativity vs. stagnation, parenting;
Stage Eight Maturity: 65 years until death, integrity vs. despair, acceptance of one's life.

The Erikson life-stage virtues, in the order of the stages in which they may be acquired, are:

hope
will
purpose
competence
fidelity
love (in intimate relationships, work and family)
caring
wisdom

Answer 10

Wisdom - intuitive or knowledge based - is most valuable and powerful when offered from a state of absolute disinterestedness or emotional detachment.