Wisdom
Without a specific application point, a piece of classic wisdom is just a platitude.
raptitude.com • Advice Gets Good When It Gets Specific
Being wise means having more questions than answers.
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato
Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.
thekcpgroup.com • The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.”
Data, on one end of the spectrum, is separable, objective, linear, mechanistic, and abundant. Wisdom, on the other end of the spectrum, is holistic, subjective, spiritual, conceptual, creative, and scarce. [...] Today we are drowning in a raging flood of new data and information and the raft of wisdom to which we desperately cling is breaking
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