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do most people gain wisdom with age?
Posted by lisleman • 4/07/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: age, insight, wisdom
most people learn from life's lessons -
wisdom is different than just knowledge. It's like applied knowledge.
What do think?
Any insight to share
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Sure, that is until they get too old and stubborn from old age.-
stiff stubborn - not good but you can be that at any age
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Wisdom comes from experience, which in most cases comes with age. Thing is not everyone learns from theirs or another persons experiences. So at times a younger person might be wiser than a more mature person about certain things. So i might be wiser in computer related issues than my mom, but with life in general she's much wiser than i and i often consult with her about things concerning that!-
yes I agree - wisdom is something that you don't learn in class or in a book (or blog).
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They should be gaining wisdom. If not, they might be stupid.-
if you don't learn from experience then hopefully you had fun anyways.
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it depends on what you want to call wisdom. some people believe that the only thing one needs is to live life to the fullest, which not many do. inexperienced, stupid, feckless people sometimes lead ostensibly better or fuller lives because they're not bogged down by rules or any other forms of inhibitions. on the other hand, there are those who have never had to face difficult problems because they've been prudent all their lives. i'm not sure what qualifies as wisdom and if wisdom is actually acquired with age.-
your words here have thought behind them - so I would guess you might not have written or expressed these thoughts years ago. My question is what gave you the wisdom of these words? It is not defined easily. One of those, you know it when you see it type items.
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i don't know. maybe it was indeed time. i can't imagine what i would have said 10 years ago; i'd like to think that it would have been different, but somehow i doubt it. i don't actually feel like i've grown wiser since then.
i'm more prudent now for sure. while it may seem clear that prudence is acquired with time, it doesn't definitively and directly answer the question of whether prudence is an articulation of wisdom. i'd rather say that it's more of a refraction of some deeper fear. but fear could be conceived of as a type of wisdom, that is, a certain foreknowledge of one's action that prevents one from acting in immoral or pernicious ways...argh! i'm tired. this could go on forever and yet never reach any absolute conclusion.
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Indeed wisdom is an applied knowledge. Wisdom cannot be confined to any one time or place. And when We find Wisdom in unexpected situation regardless of time, it is more meaningful. It is more wonderful finding a precious stone in a garbage heap than in jewelry stores. This awakening is purer and its effect is different. Wisdom is more beneficial if found in unexpected places and extra ordinary situations. This is only I can say of Wisdom, who has another name.... -
Wisdom and cynicism both. And many times, mistake one for the other. -
"Do most people gain wisdom with age?"
Depends on if you can erase what you've been taught... Wisdom comes from learning from your own mistakes and making your own conclusion from them.-
agree
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people do gain wisdom with age, but then stop attaining wisdom with a "i know it all" attitude.But if u observe great leaders they sought wisdom until their last breath.Even a small baby can silently leave u a lesson- -
Wisdom is the reward for the things we lose with age.
Like, bladder control.-
like that one (the wisdom - not loss of bladder)
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That would be awful, really awful.
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More people are getting demented with ageing -
I don't think so, very few i guess.
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Gain wisdom but can't find their pants-
Maybe not able to hid the dangler beneath the pants?
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Oh the here after - as in what was I here after. The key to life is finding the keys.
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Yes. I think so. You can only say you truly know things if you've been there and done that. -
Some do, some don't. So no I don't think one gains wisdom by virtue of aging, but by how they have experienced life and learned from it. -
not always -
They only grow wiser if they learn to dream, to be quiet, and to forgive. -
Wisdom is indeed applied knowledge. Wisdom cannot be confined to any one time/age. -
If looking back at all the mistakes you've made and knowing how never to repeat them is wisdom ... I should be on a mountain top espousing my deep thoughts to the masses!!! -
I hope that people gain wisdom with age. I keep getting older. Maybe that is the one good aspect of aging.
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the lucky ones do. -
Depends on how you use time, if you are eager to learn and to gain wisdom then you might be much better than someone twice your age, also if you learn from the wisdom of others you do much better. -
Information...Yes... Wisdom... not necessarily -
I think people gain wisdom by rolling into expirences and intellectual advances; I mean using their minds to think. It's not necessarily that it has to do with aging because you might meet people older than you but they have no wisdom and vice versa.
I elaborated on this topic over my blog couple of months ago in the post entitled "Grow UP"; welcome to check if you want. -
No I know a few that grow dumber by the second -
"Bodily decrepitude is wisdom." Take it from an old man: old men know nothing.
Besides: The wiser you think you are, the more life fools you.-
That WAS profound... but well said :-)
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The main thing I am learning is acceptance. Capital "A". The biggest hurdle is learning acceptance of self. I have life-long been open to what others might offer. I have been curious-driven all of my known life. I came to being in a socially conservation time here in America, the South. Racism was a given. Japanese and Germans were evil personified. A woman was the nest provider. Homosexuality was not a known. (Or certainly never discussed, either by elders or childhood friends.)
Much changed. Very much in my 70 years. And change I always welcomed. I never understood the basis for automatic prejudice or caste-typing in the first place. I always wanted to know more.
So have I grown in wisdom. Yes. I do know more. I accept more than at any point in my life. Even death, which for decades I saw only as n abstraction - one to deal with later,I face and accept now.
As stated at the beginning, my main hurdle in acceptance has been of self. That I am neither bad nor good. I have neither a closed heart nor a truly open one. Fear still resides. But without the strength it once possessed. I pray for acceptance to my Higher Power (whom I choose to call "Love") daily. And feel I am getting there. I AM me. And to be me is more and more okay.
Is this wisdom? I choose to say yes. Has it taken time? Yes, many, many years. I am grateful for what I have today. -
Haven't you ever heard the saying "there's no fool like an old fool"?
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No, in my opinion if it gains from age.. It is experience. Wisdom is perception of understanding. -
Question: do most people gain wisdom with age?
Answer: IMHO wisdom and age are not necessarily linked, for some young people are very wise and some older people are not. IMHO knowledge and life experience are not necessarily linked to wisdom either, for their are many people who have a great deal of knowledge and who have had many life experiences but remain foolish. IMHO none of us can become wise, unless or until we "awake" and that "bodhi moment" can occur at any age.
Wisdom of the Buddha
These are wise quotes of Siddhāttha Gotama; the Buddha. It doesn't matter which faith you follow or if don't particularly consider yourself a religious person, you will find truth in his words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTsb-woP3jI&feature=related
If you prefer text:
A jug fills drop by drop.
-- Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
-- Buddha
Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.
-- Buddha
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
-- Buddha
Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
-- Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
-- Buddha
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
-- Buddha
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
-- Buddha
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.
-- Buddha
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
-- Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-- Buddha
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
-- Buddha
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
-- Buddha
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-- Buddha
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
-- Buddha
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
-- Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
-- Buddha
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
-- Buddha
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-- Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-- Buddha
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
-- Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-- Buddha
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
-- Buddha
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Buddha
When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
-- Buddha
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- Buddha
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-- Buddha
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I like to think that we all get more senile as we get older
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