Wisdom Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Wisdom.

Wisdom Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Wisdom.
This section contains 534 words
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Wisdom

Summary: Essay describes the definition of wisdom and attempts to answer if experience is a type of wisdom.
Wisdom is something everyone wants to have. Being a wise man is a dream of many people. When someone mentions the word wisdom, usually people will think about intelligence. A lot of people think that a wise man is an intelligent man. So what is the relationship between wisdom and intelligence? Are they the same? It seems to me that wisdom has much deeper meaning than intelligence. Intelligence is only a part of wisdom.

I've heard people called someone `a wise old man' and `an intelligent child'. If they both have high power of understanding, leaning and reasoning, then what's the difference between an old man and a child? Definitely, the old man has lived much longer than the child, in other words the old man has a lot more experience. Why can experience make such a difference? When one realize that a lot of judgments are made...

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