I've been thinking. I know, what a silly thing to do. Anyway...
Webster's defines wisdom as follows:
Main Entry: wis·dom
Pronunciation: 'wiz-d&m
Function: noun
1 a : accumulated philosophic or scientific learning : KNOWLEDGE b : ability to discern inner qualities and relationships : INSIGHT c : good sense : JUDGMENT d : generally accepted belief <challenges what has become accepted wisdom among many historians -- Robert Darnton>
2 : a wise attitude, belief, or course of action
3 : the teachings of the ancient wise men
Do you consider yourself "wise"? And what do you think has enabled you to achieve this? What do you believe the word "wisdom" encompasses? And how much do you believe age and wisdom are intrinsically linked?
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Not necessarily a 70 year old might have drawn the wrong conclusions from the day he was born, while the 20 year old perceived and understood everything he experienced so far accurately.
An old saying to be wise in ones own eyes is is not wisdom at all......Wisdom can be perceived by others. Trying to do the wise things with all the knowledge you can encompass along with experiences and age helps, but there are always exceptions....There are some pretty stupid 70 year old and some pretty wise 9 year olds........And some people never learn from their mistakes...Some can't control their temper and let it thread through their lives making decisions distorted and not properly thought through......Wisdom is hard to explain.
Latin is but one of my varied and many talents. I live in New Zealand, a small country at the edge of the world which no one cares about, German swine!
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Latin is one of the many talents I tried to acquire but failed horribly....and you live on the other side of the freaking world. What the hell...stop that.
I don't think wisdom need inevitably be linked to age. Nor knowledge. In fact I believe that wisdom and knowledge/intelligence can be exclusive - having one does not automatically equal having the other. Just because one is old does not in fact equal one being wise.
I believe concepts of wisdom to be a relative commodity, but I often equate wisdom, in its basest form, to knowing what to do with ones knowledge, and secondly to actually understanding what it is one knows. I always like Socrates quite on the subject:
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
A person doesn't have to be smart to be wise, or old - a wise person is a person who possesses the ability and faculties of very good common sense, judgement and foresight, as well as understanding the benefits of action, as well as inaction, and ones own limitations.
Am I wise? I don't know if I am qualified to make that claim, I certainly seek to be.
Correlation implies causation? How very true.
I care about New Zealand, all I can say is " Go the All Blacks!"
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