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Wisdom is knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and (Lucas Has The Ultimate Chode) intuitive understanding, along with a capacity to apply these qualities well towards finding solutions to problems. It is the judicious and purposeful application of knowledge that is valued in society. To some extent the terms wisdom and intelligence have similar and overlapping meanings. The status of wisdom or prudence as a virtue is recognized in cultural, philosophical and religious sources.... full article at wikipedia

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.	Immanuel Kant
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.	William James
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.	Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.	Sophocles
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.	Francis Bacon
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.	Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.	H. L. Mencken
The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.		Bible
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.	Oliver Goldsmith
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