#philosophy #mind #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related # TODO > [!TODO] TODO # Wisdom **Wisdom** is goodness or goodness is wisdom? >[[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|Knowledge]] can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught. ~ [[Hermann Hesse]]  [[Cicero]] says that the wise man is always [[Happiness|happy]]  >I think Plato would have said that it consists in knowledge of the good, and would have supplemented this definition with the Socratic doctrine that no man sin wittingly, from which it follows that whoever knows what is good does what is right >~[[Bertrand Russell]]  May we assume that wisdom is knowledge of the good?  >Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible This view implies an oligarchy >~[[Bertrand Russell]] ![[1671480710020__Pythagorean_to_think_that_without_mathematics_no_true_wisdom_is_possible_This_view_implies_an_oliga.jpg]] >Plato, in common with most Greek philosophers, too the view that leisure is essential to wisdom, which will therefore n found among those who have to work for their living, but only among the not be as to their subsistence. This point of view is essentially aristocratic. >~[[Bertrand Russell]]  >Without [[Freedom|freedom]] of thought there can be no such thing as **wisdom**. >~ [[Benjamin Franklin]]  [[Compound Knowledge]] does not cause **wisdom**? >I’ve studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before  >Life — for its own sake. — Realize the fact that you simply “live” and not “live for.” >~ [[Bruce Lee's Wisdom - Striking Thoughts|Bruce Lee's Wisdom]]