Wisdom Branch 7: Axiology - Deepstash

Wisdom Branch 7: Axiology

Use logic to make decisions.

To be wise means that you rely on facts determined through analyses of evidence (which could also mean they can be disconfirmed). Unwise people let their beliefs, religious or otherwise, determine what they believe to be true.

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“An idea is something that won’t work unless you do.” - Thomas A. Edison

“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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