Should The Wise Advise? Who Is Wisdom For?
Someone could be wise about one area of life but not particularly good at giving advice in another area. In fact, why would advice even come into the picture? Maybe it’s enough to know a great deal of information without ever having to apply it to practical situations.
There’s also quality of wisdom. Beyond being an intellectual exercise, this search for wisdom’s definition can help us think about ways to become a better person ourselves. If we think of the expression “older and wiser,” we know we’ll definitely get older with time, but it would be nice to get wiser, too.
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“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”
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