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 From The25Virtues Survey:

Wisdom:the ability to take in data from many sources, synthesize it and apply it meaningfully

Wisdom: Solid inspection of learned experiences leads to better guidance, solid decision-making, and the ability to support others learning.

Be a guiding voice, but not over powering.  People grow at their own pace.

Wisdom and compassion go hand in hand.

Wisdom: Drawing from all ways of knowing to make a decision or to take action

Wisdom: A life without the pursuit of understanding is not worth living. You must understand that the point is to pursue it, not to achieve it.

Wisdom is very important. It's what you gain from learning and keep you from making the same mistakes, leads you to a fulfilled life.   

The path to enlightenment and helping others.

Wisdom, learn from your mistakes and use knowledge to help others.

Looking to wisdom at anytime can free anyone from anything.   

Ability to discern inner qualities and relationships, insight; helps you follow your heart and make good decisions from the start.

An understanding that comes with openness and inquiry

Gaining insight from events over time and using that insight to help make better decisions.

Is there anything nobler to seek after? Is there any greater reward to tolerating the indignity of aging? To have a personal yardstick, experience that makes you more compassionate because you know better -- it doesn't get much better than that.

Knowledge that comes from self-assurance and basic knowing, not necessarily book learning. I want to continue to learn and discover so I can keep my life new and exciting and growing.

Synergy of knowledge and understanding gained through "experience." I am compelled to understand that which takes place in my experience in this lifetime. I am compelled to share this with others.

The ability to use your intelligence in a useful, productive manner.

To earn a big enough understanding of myself and others and the world to be able to truly make a difference, or to realize the truth of what is possible.

Wisdom comes from experience. You learn from your mistakes and strive. Education is the basis to life.   

Wisdom-intelligences across many domains of social, emotional and intellectual functioning.

Wisdom-knowledge gained over time and across cultures. A body with a heart but without intellect is not truly complete.
 Quotations

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Chinese Proverb

 

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.

African Proverb

 

You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.

Japanese Proverb

 

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life

Aristophanes

 

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

 

Action should culminate in wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita

 

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Queen Elisabeth

 

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Helen Rowland

 

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey