On this, I am personally conflicted. Probably has a lot to do with how much a person is learning oriented.
Also, I think there is some wisdom in innocence that children have. We can learn bad things as well as good.
What do you think?
I wish! I have three uni degrees was a lecturer in counselling, and haven't at the moment got two brain cells to rub together - age related degeneration methinks, or my brain his on vacation I like your thoughts about innocence yes 'out of the mouths of babes and sucklings' I am pretty sure though that my life is condensed enough to psych out whats good and not so good.
I think age brings opportunity for wisdom but doesn’t guarantee it.
What he said.
Eh. I've turned making the same mistakes into an income source.
Make a mistake once, it's an error. Make a mistake twice, it's jazz. Make the same mistakes for 20 years, that's punk rock
I love that
I think wisdom comes with age if you learn from your mistakes. If keep repeating them, then you are just an idiot. Life experience should also help. Been there, and done that.
Basically yes, but It's not automatic. It requires intelligence, self-examination, self-reflection, and being willing to see your mistakes and learn from them.
I believe that with age should come experience. It is the experience and the willingness to learn from it that comes wisdom.
With age MIGHT come wisdom, or maybe a hardening into stupidity...
To the extent that someone reflects, critically ponders, and learns from life's lessons. It would be easy to skate through life, but then I would miss the cracks and crystals of everything I pass. Why am I using the coldest season as an analogy? It would be easy to paddle through life, but then I would miss the gentle surf and individual sand grains.
Experience proffers widsom.
Age proffers experience.
Intelligence can give a bit of a short cut.
Sometimes, once is enough.
Experience can also muddy the waters. It depends.
Personally I don't believe it at all.
A young person can be much wiser them some older people, I just got home from a road trip with two of the most foolish older people I have ever met,poor decision makers and have known quite wise young ones.
I think it is most likely a selection bias.
It’s basically true. Wisdom comes from experience.
I think you nailed it on the head. I absolutely believe that wisdom comes with age, but as you said, only if you're willing and open to learning. I've learned more truly meaningful, life-changing things in the last five years of my life, than I did in the first fifty. I'm talking about the kind of things that would probably qualify as wisdom. Things that if I had grasped and understood them in my teens and early twenties, could have profoundly changed my life for the better.
My son is so much smarter than me at 16 that I give no credence to it.
than I ?
I think @skado nailed it, age itself in no ways guarantees wisdom, in fact I say age generally is a barrier to wisdom as people get set in their ways, their beliefs are to entrenched they are incapable of learning.
Daily, the clever man learns something. Daily, the wise man gives up some certainty. (MONKEY)
Age it self does not bring wisdom. I would say knowledge, experience, and reflect do.
The wisdom of children is that they are open-minded. They haven't been taught to close their minds, yet. Everything is new and wondrous. At least this is true until it is "educated" out of them.
The wisdom of our elders is based on experience. They have lived and loved and lost and learned from life.They are safe, settled and experienced, and therefore we see them as full of knowledge.
The problem with the open-minded child-like wisdom is that we may end up hurting ourselves. The problem with the wisdom of our elders is that we may miss something to avoid being hurt.
The trick is continuing to learn while finding balance somehow.
Creativity dies as we age. I think creativity and experience are necessary for wisdom. Too many people are arrogant (a refusal to accept other perspectives) and do not learn, therefore no wisdom achieved.
I don't believe any of that shit - or any non-shit for that matter
wisdom doesn't come; it is acquired ... or not (tr. dump).