Talk:Wisdom

Published Wisdom Poem

Poem taken from "The Age of Poetry" by C.J. Williams:

"Soft, but square. Sturdy, yet fragile. Like the ocean, but a swimming pool of dreams that last forever - like all these things, but more, bound together in eternal piece of heart worth struggle and sacrifice to the death of the glorious struggle between life and the supernatural such as everything we want in this alienated world of despair that entangles our relations and ideals of the world as one perfect being which will never be but may eventuate with a little hope, have a little faith in me! Have a little faith in me.."

Left brain and right brain

I removed the sentence about intuition and wisdom belonging to parts of the brain as non-scientific and not supported by modern Neuroscience. The link that supported this sentence was also to a non-scientific web page expressing non-scientific opinion.

Quote

Under the section "Chinese religion" there is a quote that states in Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius he says "Love of learning is akin to wisdom. To practice with vigor is akin to humanity. To know to be shameful is akin to courage (zhi, ren, yong.. three of Mengzi's sprouts of virtue)." When I looked through multiple versions of the test I was unable to find anything directly stating it. The most I found was a user review on a book here [1] which states it word by word. However, according to multiple translated copies, he does say something close to that which would be better "To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character."[2] [3] -- • Apollo468•  02:32, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

This topic

The problem with opening an article with dictionary definitions is that dictionaries only define the use of a word in modern conversation - they do not define the topic itself. Wisdom is first and foremost a character trait possessed by some people, and there are plenty of references in the academic literature to support that. What gives rise to that character trait is open for discussion through the use of WP:RS. The article appears to have been conceived to put forward a certain POV, intentionally or unintentionally, and it would benefit from a revisit. The article was created in 2005 and still only meets a quality level of class C after all of these years. 14.2.206.234 (talk) 22:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Jedi section?

why does this exist? please can I have some explanation? i don't really think this is necessary for a serious encyclopedia. can I just have some context as to why it is important enough to be here? 193.115.235.254 (talk) 18:37, 21 November 2024 (UTC)