Wisdom
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Wisdom
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Wisdom refers to the slow accumulation of personal values that work well for people living in different kinds of ways.
Joe Edelman • Human Values
A simpler, more elegant definition, still compatible with Grossmann’s, comes from Tom Morgan of LE:
I love parsimonious definitions, which is why I favour Tom’s over the academic ones.
“Know what to do, and when.”
I love parsimonious definitions, which is why I favour Tom’s over the academic ones.
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
Like the Stoics and Daoists, I want to put my focus on wisdom so that a “wise agency” can emerge. This would mean people take the right action and get the right things done, in whatever domain they find themselves.