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Thoughts on Wisdom. Can anyone describe or define it? Does it come with age? Or only when someone is drunk on a Thursday?
Loyal and respected subjects please think aloud.

Wisdom means being wise enough to say "I don't know."

Oh I had that in my school days, when teachers used to ask question I always had a constant answer 'I Dont Know'.
.. on a philosophical note.. agree with u ian.

i like ur name , ur the devil before hell

You can be intelligent and unwise.
You can be unintelligent and wise.
And sometimes, rarely, but sometimes you can be both intelligent and wise.

Or as my father used to say "There's many an intellectual propping up a bar somewhere." - wise words indeed.

...wisdom is supeme understanding and knowing what to do with that understanding

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.--Martin H. Fischer

any objections if i say wisdom is the virtue of having the uncommon thing that we call commonsense.???

Corcovado wrote:i like ur name , ur the devil before hell

Not exactly Lucifer is only wrongly comprehended as devil. Do u have anywhere in any of the mythological books..or religious literature? No evidence!! and more over its the shortest description i can give abt me.. and i think may b abt majority of human kind. St.Lucifer... contrary to my previous arguement though.

Wisdom are the teeth that are giving me a lot of grief!!

It's the ability to discern truth and exercise good judgement... a trait that is developed by experience.

i know this doesnt belong here.... but when i saw ur question i was reminded about something else i read somewhere....

"what is courage?"

This was a question once asked as an essay in a class in Oxford University.... the answer was supposed to have been 8-10 pages long with references, quotes and inferences of your own.... but the top scorer in that essay was the following


Q: What is courage? (200 marks)
A: This is courage.