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Rob Tourtelot • 69 cards
wisdom is equal parts hope and despair.
Erica Brown • Ecclesiastes: and the Search for Meaning
Aristotle offers some helpful terminology. Sophia (roughly translated as “theoretical knowledge”), he says, grasps universal truths, whereas phronesis (roughly, “good practical judgment”) is required to apply these truths properly to particular instances.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Wisdom isn’t about understanding things (and people); it is knowing what they can do to you.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
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Dr. Chi-Hua Wang • 2 cards
Wisdom is all about appreciating contexts.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Wisdom is accumulated knowledge that has been gained through repeated experience.
Joe Dispenza • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness."