Let’s distinguish wisdom from knowledge in general. It is more than just practical information about how the world is, how to maintain things like our health or our prosperity. Wisdom refers to the ...

There are three basic ways to express your thoughts about anything: Opinions, knowledge and wisdom. Opinions are your personal reflections on any subject, from politics to sports. They may or may not ...

Knowledge is doing right; wisdom is motivation to do still better. Knowledge is having good intuition (a combination of gut and deliberation): wisdom is still honing your intuitions. Knowledge is ...

Wisdom snuck up on me. I wasn’t looking for it. It didn’t announce itself. And, quite frankly, I thought for a long time that knowledge and wisdom were twins. I’ve come to learn they’re cousins. In ...

I recently wondered what Socrates would say if he transcended centuries and, for a final time, had a chance to question the world. I wondered, if he stood in the Pit of our campus, what self-effacing ...

In today’s culture we obtain a lot of knowledge but very little wisdom. It’s the same as the difference between judgment and discernment. It’s easy to judge when you have all this knowledge.

Dr. Gregory Stebbins is the Founder and Master Coach at PeopleSavvy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. There are many variations of the word “hunch”: intuition, gut feeling and ...

Somewhere in my distant youth I remember reading 1 Chronicles 1 where God said to the young Solomon, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you,” to which Solomon replied, “Give me wisdom and knowledge ...

We are a society of seven billion human beings all with the ability to almost instantly connect. In seconds, we can send a text message or start a video chat with a friend on the other side of the ...

Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse redefined wisdom, not as mere knowledge, but as a soul's preparation for life's lessons. His ...

This post is part of a “Wisdom in Mainstream (Academic, Research, and Applied) Psychology Series.” We take a look at the dominant models and perspectives in the field studying wisdom and see what they ...