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1 year ago ::
Mar 23, 2011 - 2:39PM
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"Wisdom is beneficent and kind. She is the aura of the power of God, the radiance of the eternal Divine Light, a spotless mirror of God. She renews all things, and passing into holy souls from age to age, She produces friends of God and prophets. She is firm, but Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all Her paths are peace. She is a Tree of Life to them that lay hold upon Her. And Wisdom is far better than weapons of war." -- Solomon, The Book of Wisdom "Without the guidance of true Wisdom from above, the prophesied Judgment could not be executed by the modern son of man. However, true Wisdom is not what the average man considers as wisdom. I speak of Wisdom in the same sense that Solomon did in Proverbs, and as the Book of Wisdom did. You see, the Book of Wisdom is part of the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (Tanach), and is included as the 'Old Testament' of the Catholic Bible. However, it was purposely left out of the Protestant versions of the Bible." -- From Wisdom = Judgment
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1 year ago ::
Feb 02, 2011 - 2:42AM
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Wisdom to me is where spiritual incite manifests into physical reality. We all have this where we might be thinking about something and have a piece of information, non related to what we were thinking about, just show up. This is also what we'd call intuition. It comes from the part of our being that is non-physical. For me, I've had this happen where I'll be thinking about something, then in an instant a sentence or paragraph of information is there as if it always was, and manifests without conscious thought. To me, this is wisdom.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 27, 2010 - 10:16PM
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We should focus on the important things in life and ignore the trivia. Wisdom is the ability to distinguish between the two.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 03, 2010 - 10:09PM
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Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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2 years ago ::
Sep 20, 2010 - 12:31AM
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Wisdom is reached at age 54 in Numerology.  First 27 years we are in our youth. Second 27 years we are in our power....then 27 more years we finally reach our wisdom. I am wiser every year.  At age 81 we can continue in our wisdom or enter back into our youth square and become child-like. To be wise is to know when to speak and when to be still and listen.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 20, 2010 - 12:29AM
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Wisdom is the slowing down of response times that comes with old age.
Not bad at all Chari  . I'll expand a bit since at almost 67 years old I have indeed slowed down a bit. Smart men and women learn from their mistakes. Wise men and women learn from the mistakes of others. Wisdom includes learning from history and not repeating those things that have a record of failure, and doing those things that have a record of success. Doing the same thing that has never worked over and over and expecting a different result is an example of stupidity. Wise men and women do not act stupidly.
And that is my own 'wisdom', offered in all due humility of course  . Ken
Conservative, Libertarian, Life member of the NRA and VFW
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2 years ago ::
Sep 20, 2010 - 12:16AM
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"O friends, help the Oppressed One with well-pleasing virtues and good deeds! Today let every soul desire to attain the highest station. He must not regard what is in him, but what is in God. It is not for him to regard what shall advantage himself, but that whereby the Word of God which must be obeyed shall be upraised. The heart must be sanctified from every form of selfishness and lust, for the weapons of the unitarians and the saints were and are the fear of God. That is the buckler which guardeth man from the arrows of hatred and abomination. Unceasingly hath the standard of piety been victorious, and accounted amongst the most puissant hosts of the world. Thereby do the saints subdue the cities of [men's] hearts by the permission of God, the Lord of hosts. Darkness hath encompassed the earth: the lamp which giveth light was and is wisdom. The dictates thereof must be observed under all circumstances. And of wisdom is the regard of place and the utterance of discourse according to measure and state. And of wisdom is decision; for man should not accept whatsoever anyone sayeth." (Abdu'l-Baha, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 45)
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2 years ago ::
Sep 19, 2010 - 7:53AM
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Wisdom is the slowing down of response times that comes with old age.
“The problem with quotes on the Internet is
that it is hard to verify their authenticity”
- Abraham Lincoln.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 19, 2010 - 12:08AM
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Maybe the film, The Getting of Wisdom, would have some answers: www.imdb.com/title/tt0076079/fullcredits What's wisdom? Thoreau said it best: It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. And we all know that famous quote of Thoreau: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Obviously, then, most of us aren't very wise.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 18, 2010 - 7:32PM
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Howdy
I would agree with Guesses.
Wisdom is the ethical-moral application of knowledge.
Knowledge may tell you how to make and shoot a gun.
Wisdom tells you when to use it.
Knowledge may tell you that the dress your wife is wearing has nothing to do with how fat her butt looks, but wisdom tells you not to say anything.
Thanks! I like your examples too!
Infinite Blessings
Mike/NAFOD
"Lord, please, protect me from Your followers!"
"WWBD? Buddha- Does it matter? If you are enlightened it does not. If you are not enlightened it still doesn't matter."
"If you go looking to place blame, eventually you'll wind up blaming the Gods"
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