WHAT IS WISDOM?
“Wisdom” is defined as the ability to
make sensible decisions and give good advice because of the experience and
knowledge you have.
Another definition is “the right use of knowledge” or “the use of the most important means for
attaining the best ends”.
The word is also used to mean “knowledge
that a society oo culture has gained over a long period of time. Example: the
collective wisdom of the Indian people.
Some synonyms of wisdom are:
enlightenment, erudition, foresight, insight, judgment, knowledge, prudence, reason,
sagacity, skill, and understanding.
Likewise some antonyms are: absurdity, folly, foolishness,
idiocy, imprudence, indiscretion, senselessness, and stupidity.
What follows are some famous quotes
on wisdom.
1, Knowledge
comes, but wisdom lingers. ---The English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892).
2. Early to
bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ---American statesman
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 ).
3. All life
is an experiment.----American Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935).
4. Common
sense in an uncommon degree is what the world wisdom.---The English poet and
literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).
5. Much
wisdom often goes with fewest words.---The Greek tragedian Sophocles who lived
from about 496 to about 406 BCE. )
6. Wisdom is
to the mind what health is to the body.---the French author Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680).
7. Very few
men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he
that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.---The English poet
and dramatist Ben Jonson (1572-1637).
8. True
wisdom is a thing very extraordinary . Happy are they that have it; and next to
them, not the many that think they have it, but the few that are sensible of their
own defects and imperfections, and know that they have it not.---The English
divine John Tillotson , Archbishop of Canterbury (1630-94)
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G.R.Kanwal
19 May 2026
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