Wisdom
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Wisdom
The essence of wisdom is to act in harmony with nature.
Osho • Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living)
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
“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping that someone else will die.”
Helen Garner • Helen Garner on Happiness: ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’
"My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions." @naval
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A recent study found that “Wisdom is the best predictor of life satisfaction in both men and women and can offset the influence of negative age on life satisfaction. Wisdom has a greater influence on life satisfaction in older adulthood than health, socioeconomic status, financial situation, environment, or social engagement.”
Thirty years of wisdom... See more
Thirty years of wisdom... See more
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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.
Peter Limberg • High Agency to Wise Agency
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.