2007-10-17 04:07:52 · 20 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A wise person knows their "wisdom" is fallable and flexible. Wisdom comes from experience - but we all have different experiences and thus have different points of view about similar topics. What is thought of as fact yesterday, it tomorrows folly. Juxtaposing ideas on an issue may both be seen as "wise" depending upon which side you are on.
Should you apart advice upon someone who seeks it from you due to your supposed "wisdom", do so with this knowledge: the person may not use your advice or may use it incorrectly. Does this mean your advice (wisdom) is not "wise"? Not necessarily. Situations differ based upon perspective.
Here is my thought on "wisdom": the wise person knows they do not know everything or even most things but does know that their life is a continual learning experience that will enhance and alter their "wisdom" constantly.
2007-10-17 05:08:17 · answer #1 · answered by thinking-guru 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a general rule. If you ask for my advice then you have deduced that I am wise enough to handle the problem and I will of course give you my best. However, if after the advice is given, and the party chooses not to follow it, I don't give them advice again. Now, if someone asks for my opinion (like on here), then they are not sure who has the best answer and they are fishing. I give them the best I can give but, don't expect them to have to follow it. Even with this tough hard nosed philosophy on advice, my phone still rings at least twice a week with hard cases. So how do you know when your wisdom is wise? When they keep coming back, and their friends keep coming back, and their friends family, etc...
2007-10-17 11:58:42 · answer #2 · answered by delux_version 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you don't think you're wise...However, wisdom is seeing the good in every situation or the right thing to do and doing it.
2007-10-17 06:06:12 · answer #3 · answered by Daewen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing that generally tells me that something is decent wisdom is when you get tired of watching people ignore it and do themselves harm. When you accumulate a lot of those things and start drawing connections between them, then you've built a framework of wisdom to handle more general problems.
2007-10-17 04:17:58 · answer #4 · answered by Mythological Beast 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are capable enough to keep a tight reign on what you say and what you think. Wisdom has insight to be able to seek out what’s happening in the concealed that controls what seems apparent on the outer surface.
2007-10-17 04:26:41 · answer #5 · answered by insert_ nickname_ here! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean aside from you telling me?
Which would be very wise on my part to believe you.
The answer is equally indisputable.
When nobody can dispute a wisdom then it is wise.
Like listening to you like my answer.
2007-10-17 23:11:13 · answer #6 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When it doesn't seem like wisdom at all. When something is rational and can be applied to any situation where an individual may have a crisis.
2007-10-17 04:31:56 · answer #7 · answered by Cube 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The core of Wisdom is knowing you may be wrong.
So you don't 'know'. You just have to make your best guess, and adapt to the changes.
Kik got it right. Wisdom is an increasing awareness of your capacity for stupidity.
2007-10-17 04:30:46 · answer #8 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you can never know wisdom is experience and the quest for knowledge finding solutions and knowing there will be problems it's having an open mind and accepting when one is wrong or knowing when to walk away even when you know your wright
2007-10-17 08:13:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you know that to be wise is not wisdom.
2007-10-17 04:37:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋