Does being older mean you're wiser?

Oh I don't know some jokes just get funnier😄

-Peace

Originally posted by PVS
tip for a budding comedian: jokes tend to become less and less funny with repetition. for example see jeff foxworthy.

now, what was that topic again?

Don't know jeff foxworthy.....

Let me remind you now....the topic is wisdom......

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it......Ah oh.....

There is a old saying that it does.I guess because you learn so much as a kid and you are much smarter as you are older.Or something like that.JM

Originally posted by Deano
''The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing''

Originally posted by Bardock42
Yes yes...we all know socrates....

but do you understand what it really means?

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
There is a old saying that it does.I guess because you learn so much as a kid and you are much smarter as you are older.Or something like that.JM

Yes its something like that🙂

it is true sometimes, the older a person the wiser, because they have been on earth longer than the ones after and so they know more.

Originally posted by Scoobless
but do you understand what it really means?

Oh yes, I just don't agree with it😄

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"

sadly people choose the second one

The man of knowledge believes he knows something. The man of wisdom knows he knows something. The man of knowing knows he knows nothing. Can you see the power and freedom that knowing that you know nothing gives you? Now you are free to be who you are, experience what is in your present moment and then be open for the next moment. Since you know you know nothing, you are not locked into a world of dogma, beliefs, false truths or even past experiences. Each moment is fresh; each moment brings to you an aliveness and an excitement that knowledge and wisdom just do not have. Enjoy knowledge and wisdom, but be a being of knowing.

but people are locked into a world of dogma, beliefs, false truths or even past experiences. Thats what keeps us blind from the truth

To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.

One for Deano

Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman:
It is no longer enough to be smart — all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.

My view

Edith Wharton:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

And a summary of this argument

George Santayana:
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Originally posted by snehin
well its said tht old men hav wisdom but cant kids be wise too??

it isnt age that brings wisdom, but experience.

The wise are the ones who listen. The knowledgable are the ones that talk.

Kids (by that i mean under 16), lack maturity a lot of the time, which is why their opinions are discounted. Children also tend to have a rose tinted view of the world. Or lack of insight.

Originally posted by Scoobless
but do you understand what it really means?

I am relatively sure I do...although who knows if one understands any philosopher anyways.....

Originally posted by Deano
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"

sadly people choose the second one

Originally posted by carnival_junkie
it isnt age that brings wisdom, but experience.

The wise are the ones who listen. The knowledgable are the ones that talk.

I don't think age equals wisdom, but you get some understanding, its how you apply that understanding that makes you wise.

Knowledge doesn't= wisdom...

well, i know i am far wiser than my stepfather, so age cant equal wisdom

I'm wiser then most men too..

Argh, I hate when people brag aboot how smart and wise and knowledgable they are .......

if you're talking about the wisdom of lifes experiences, then yes.. elders would be more in-tune with advice for younger people...

however if you meant wise as in scoring genius-level on an IQ test then thats not an age determining factor