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Wisdom is our capacity for understanding, and understanding is our ability to grasp the significance and to realise the relevance of what we know. Knowledge is important, but without the wisdom to use it in the right way, it is lifeless.
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
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Meera Kothand • Your First 100
the classic contrast between intelligence and wisdom, most concisely: “intelligence is knowing the right answer, wisdom is knowing when to say it.” Wisdom overlaps with lucidity, but not entirely. An experienced old man can be wise but not lucid, and a bright young woman can be lucid but not wise. Wisdom is about qualitative knowledge gained throug... See more
This inner wisdom inclines in one direction or another for the benefit of all beings, which is one key way it is different from the desires of the heart-mind, which usually tend to move toward what is beneficial for you personally. So, the inner wisdom won’t necessarily lead you toward what you most like or enjoy. (However, through spiritual practi
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