...As I began this assignment , my first thought is what is this word we call wisdom ? Is wisdom the same as knowledge? My search for the definition of wisdom led me to many different definitions. The most simple of these was that wisdom is simply the use of knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge can actually be both similar or completely different. Whichever it is sometimes depends on the person. You can be very knowledgeable about something but how you use that knowledge shows how wise you are. Wise people know how to put the knowledge they have to good use. There have been many people with great wisdom who have been here throughout time. Their backgrounds doesn’t seem to play a impact on the amount of wisdom they have. Great philosophers have come from the poorest of economical situations. Wise people have sometimes made mistakes in their lives and learned from that mistake. From this mistake they take away the knowledge of how to handle the problem if it comes their way again. People with wisdom place very high standards on their life. Their wisdom has taught them to listen to their conscience which most of the time tells them what is the right thing to do. Are we taught wisdom or knowledge in school ? I believe we are taught knowledge of things in school and wisdom arises from this knowledge and tells us how to use the knowledge we have been taught. I think of it like this with my degree I am pursuing at FIT I can...
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...What is Wisdom? Philosophy Human Nature Jaleesa Scott March 19, 2014 Wisdom What exactly is wisdom? Wisdom is not so easy to define in abstract. Wisdom is good judgment, pure confidence, and knowledge. Wisdom can be defined in several ways and each definition is based on the person or source. Searching into these sources I have come to the dictionaries version, Biblical Version, Philosophical Version, and then Socrates Version. The dictionary defines wisdom as the quality or state of being wise; the knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight. Wisdom is not “knowing everything”, but it is opening your mind to increase knowledge. A wise person should be known for thinking before they speak on any subject they know about, also they allow themselves to ask questions about the ones he/she are unfamiliar with. People who are wise tend to be humble and not show-offs. Wisdom by the dictionaries version starts by saying that it is just a state of being wise that makes wisdom an option or a choice with no real obstacles. It simplifies wisdom into having knowledge of right or wrong and if a person is unsure should seek the information instead of moving forward blindly. The characteristics of a wise person by dictionary terms or standards are facts, experience, and knowing people. A wise person should be known to be knowledgeable which allows them to obtain facts that are needed. The facts may have been recorded...
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...Hebrew wisdom teaches that a wise man is one that is diligent with his work and a person that is lazy is a fool. One could say the primary source for Hebrew wisdom is form the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament written by a man who received wisdom from God, King Solomon (2 Chronicles 1:10). There are many themes covered throughout the book of Proverbs, however some of the most prevailing themes are that of wisdom and folly. “The book of Proverbs consistently presents the sluggard as a fool and the diligent person as wise” (Hindson, 2012). The teachings throughout the book of Proverbs show how diligence and laziness correspond with the contrast between wisdom and folly. If a person were to read the book of Proverbs they would not just understand that it is wise to be diligent but also see the rewards promised to them. King Solomon writes that, “ . . . the person in diligence is richly supplied” (Proverbs 13:4), “The plans of the diligent only lead to abundance . . .”(Proverbs 21:5), and “the hand of the diligent enriches.” (Pr. 10:4) (Frank, 2013). Through Solomon God has revealed the blessings that befall a diligent man and shows that he would rather a man be working than not. Being a diligent person will not only yield us fruit in the way of financial blessings but also in other areas of our lives. If we are diligent about the work Christ has left for us in Matthew 28, the great commission, we will be blessed as soul winners. A diligent man is not the only thing...
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...My grandpa doesn’t know what photoshop is, but he know how to take a wonderful picture by his experiences. He knows how to use the light and how to use the distance from each subject to make pictures look beautiful. Could I say I’m more wise than my grandpa in photograph? No. I couldn’t. He has way more experiences than me. We are the young people comare our ancestors. By Smith’s argument, he thinks young people have more wisdom than their ancestors because we know what our ancestors know; and we know what our ancestors don’t know, such as technology. But do we really have more wisdom than our ancestors? I don’t think so. Wisdom is some thing that cannot exsists without real life experiences. Noble is a kond of wisdom. People who know more seems “smarter” than those people who know less. But on the other hand, without life experiences, those smarter peopple will not know how to use their knowlwdge. The real wisdom means various of life experiences. Wisedom means knowing how to apply knowledge. Imagine that a group of people get lost in the woods. The weather is extremly cold and all the woods around them are wet. They feel cold and they want to make a fire. Some of them are elder and experience more. They choose to stay where they are right now, instead of walking around to move woods. The people who alive are those elder people. Why? Because they have more experience so they know the best way to keep warm is staing there, not walking around and trying to mke a fire. More...
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...Hebrew Wisdom on Diligence and Laziness Bible 105-B27 LUO: Old Testament Survey 201320 Spring 2013 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx L33333333 Liberty University February 24, 2013 Hebrew Wisdom on Diligence and Laziness There is a great deal of Hebrew wisdom in the Bible in regards to the subjects of diligence and laziness. Throughout the book of Proverbs the words of lazy and diligence can be found in many different forms. Sluggish, sluggard, and idle describe laziness. The word diligence can also be considered as, thorough, attentive, and persistence. Each of these words, found in the Bible, can reference diligence, and laziness within Hebrew Wisdom in many cases. The book of Proverbs is the Hebrew book of Wisdom. Its purpose is to provide practical instructions to live a wise, well ordered live. The difference between being diligent, wise, lazy, and having folly is knowledge. Proverbs addresses this in its first chapter: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (Proverbs 1:7). This is the most basic ingredient in wisdom. All wisdom depends on knowledge of God and the submission to His will. To think or believe that you know something, but you do not know God negates the value of having knowledge. Wisdom comes from being faithfully diligent in the Word of God. Many positive effects come from being diligent. Some of those are wealth, wisdom, abundance, power, satisfaction, profit, and meaningfulness. Laziness brings...
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...Wisdom Many respected people in the world are often considered to be wise. To be considered wise becomes an attribute many aspire to obtain. Whether you are a political leader a religious leader or are involved in anything that requires leadership skills, wisdom is always a desired quality. Wisdom is a trait that one can gain over experiencing different types of situations. Being wise is a title that is bestowed upon a person, rather than that person claiming the title for their own. Even though wisdom can mean a lot of things to different people; the description, negation, and process of someone who is wise can help us better understand the true meaning of wisdom. Let us begin by stating that one is not born being wise, but wisdom is acquired though experience. The experience may vary from person to person. Mostly it is though hardship that one earns wisdom, through enduring difficult situations and staying strong. Although it is not just enduring a bad time because one can go through a rough patch in life, but learn nothing and do the same mistake all over again. Thus, to gain wisdom is to persevere and learn though experience. Wisdom, aside from deriving from experience has to stem from humbleness, as there is no wisdom without humility. Humility is often characterized by a person’s unwillingness to be the center of attention or by a person’s quickness to share credit or place others in a superior position. One who is wise recognizes that the standing of others should...
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...Wisdom is having experience and having the knowledge to comprehend the situation. An example would be an apostle, if you are a christian you should know people like this, they have the knowledge of God so they have wisdom because they know right from wrong. Intelligence is just having knowledge and skills. Wisdom would be if people knew how great it is because being intelligent does not compare to wisdom. If people had wisdom then the world would be different people would be able to get good jobs no state would be in debt, we would have a well organized government, nothing would be bad in the united states. Wisdom takes us way further than intelligence could, because if we were intelligent we would learn from our mistakes and not do that again but if you have wisdom then you already know what will work and what won’t work....
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...Wisdom for Living I. Introduction Background of the study (BOS) Life is like a cycle. People’s life is a daily routine. Everyone is the same in different ways and means, it might be in corporal appearances, attitudes, behaviors, but I assure every individual has their own desires and goal line in life. It is the ultimate reason why we don’t stay immobile throughout our journey no matter how hard the circumstances we experience, all of us must to move on or else we will be a failure or loser. One of the virtues that a person must possess to live a life of success is wisdom. Wisdom is a deep understanding and realization of people, things, events or situations, resulting in the ability to apply perceptions, judgments and actions in keeping with this understanding (Wikipedia.com). It often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions") so that universal principles, reason and knowledge prevail to determine one's actions. Therefore person that is jam-packed of wisdom is zilch to equate to a person who’s known to be genius, attaining this important virtue makes one individual clever and successful person. Since we have perceived in this world where we live not all of smart and intelligent person were all successful in life. In every aspect of our lives we must have the power of true discernment whenever we decide in such a situation where our choices in life are tried and tested. Wisdom helps us to make good choices in life...
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...Individual Expertise vs. Collective Wisdom To quote James Surowiecki’s book, The Wisdom of Crowds, “Groups do not need to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart.”(Surowiecki xiii) Surowiecki’s claim offers the argument that when a crowd consists of diverse, independent, decentralized individuals, their aggregated responses will be more accurate than even the predictions of experts. Although I find myself agreeing with Surowiecki’s findings, I am now of the two minds about his claim that the wisdom of crowds is likely better than the wisest person in the crowd. On the one hand I agree that crowds are wiser than the wisest individual in the crowd. On the other hand, I’m not sure if the additional consideration of monetary gain or personal incentive may have just as a significant impact on the totality of his final results. (Graff and Birkenstein 66) In an effort to prove the theory that there is wisdom in crowds, I decided to start with one of Surowiecki’s direct quotes “The real key, it turns out, is not so much perfecting a particular method, but satisfying the conditions—diversity, independence, and decentralization—that a group needs to be smart. In pursuit of proving this argument true, I’ve conducted my own experiment involving a small group of people, who were asked the following question: “What would you consider the five most vital items needed from an emergency preparedness kit, which would provide you the greatest chances...
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...TEACHINGS OF HEBREW WISDOM “You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work” ― Thomas A. Edison In today’s society and culture we seem to have a mentality of “entitlement” verses working for what we need as well as utilizing what our biblical forefathers taught us in regards to diligence and laziness in contrast to wisdom and folly. The generation of today seems more likely to take a hand out instead of working for what they receive. Our country’s debt is out of control due to things like welfare, medi-cal, tuition loans not repaid, subsidized housing, etc. We are rapidly losing a generation of youth to drugs and violence and single parent homes. Rather than educating them we are putting them in prisons at a cost that we cannot continue to pay. I was always taught to work hard for everything and never take a hand out from anyone. When we look into the book of Proverbs we find it is full of lessons regarding the wisdom of being diligent verses the contrast of being lazy! King Solomon states, “. . . the soul of the diligent is made fat” (1) “He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who……” (2) I have personally never been on any kind of assistance programs even though I have been out of work several times in my life. One thing I was always taught was to put money aside for a rainy...
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...The Hebrew books of Poetry are guides for living our daily lives. In the book of Proverbs, it is a consistent guide of wisdom for practical living. Also, this book teaches people how to attain wisdom and discipline, how to do what is right, and what is just and fair (Tyndale, NIV, 2012). This essay will display the wisdom of the teachings on diligence and laziness of the Hebrew people, and correspond with the contrast between wisdom and folly. The word proverb comes from a Hebrew word that means to rule or governor, and these sayings, reminders, and admonitions provide profound for governing our life, (Tyndale, NIV, 2012). God wants his creations to make an importance contribution to the work place and communities. These passages were for the ancient audience and for us today. God’s work is diligent and he is our example of how we should work (Genesis 1:1-27; 2:2 NLT). God’s creative work reveals his character. Sleeping does not require energy, an example of a sluggard person, and this kind of laziness is the result of poverty (Proverbs 6: 9-10). We should be diligent workers without a guide, overseer, or ruler and consider the ways of the ants and be wise (Proverbs 6: 6-7 NLT). The application of mind that is required in order to learn of this master is to consider His ways. The sluggard is so because he does not consider; nor shall they ever learn to any purpose, either by the word or the works of God, unless we set ourselves to consider His ways. Particularly, if we would...
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...To evaluate wisdom, people use a myriad of different metrics depending on the context of the measurement. Yet, of all the possible measurements of wisdom, one that categorically does NOT provide an accurate measurement is the degree to which the wise person is happy. History is filled with heroic figures who have sacrificed their very lives in a quest to add their measure of wisdom to the world. One of the most notable figures in this category was Martin Luther King, Jr. So too, literature is filled with numerous examples of tragically unhappy characters who nonetheless have achieved a state of deep inner wisdom. What all of these people have in common is the experience of suffering that led to great personal wisdom. One such archetype is...
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...The Wisdom of Crowds By: James Surowiecki Reflection In The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki explores the many benefits of collective intelligence in a variety of cases. Through detailed theory, he explains three problems (cognition, coordination, and cooperation), and the conditions necessary for crowds to be wise (diversity, independence, and decentralization). He also includes many case studies that show examples of collective intelligence being successful or floundering. The idea of a crowd is broad in this case. A crowd can span from all users of the internet using a search engine such as Google to a small team of scientist working to find a vaccine for SARS. His general theory includes four main characteristics to what makes wise crowds. They must include diversity in opinion where everyone has their own private information or interpretation of the information. Also, there must have independence of opinion. Opinions can’t be based off of the opinions of others. Next, decentralization where people can draw from their own local knowledge is a key to wise crowds. Lastly, information must be able to be aggregated. This is the ability of judgments to be turned into a collective agreement. With these four characteristics, crowds are able to collectively create a better source of information and decision making. After reading this thought-provoking book, my eyes were opened in terms of how I view business and management. Management cannot be successful without...
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..."Wisdom is rightfully attributed not to people who know what to look for in life but to people who know what to overlook." The quotation is certainly correct, insofar as it describes at least an element of wisdom. In other words, I do agree with the proposition, subject to the proviso that the achievement of wisdom may well also involve other traits or attributes. Having qualified my answer somewhat, I must endorse the principles put forth in the quotation. Overlooking -- or, perhaps, forgetting -- is a crucial skill one needs to master in order to navigate the often-treacherous paths of life without undue torment. From my own experience, and from observations of friends, family members and business associates, I am well aware of the pitfalls which await those who fail to overlook the petty, the unnecessary and the irrelevant. In modern America, as it happens, the importance of overlooking is probably greater than ever before. Even a person trying to lead a quiet, simple life encounters an endless stream of annoyances, errors and petty demands such as paperwork, filing numbers and taxes; long lines at the bank; exponentially aggravating traffic jams and sullen, uncooperative coworkers and neighbors. Those of us who cannot overlook such annoyances will invariably succumb to self-defeating dismay. The ability to overlook also reflects a healthy sense of proportion and priorities. The wise "overlooker" will ignore his or her spouse's failings after making a considered judgment...
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