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Single Idea 354
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Full Idea
It is wisdom that makes possible courage and self-control and integrity or, in a word, true goodness.
Gist of Idea
Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible
Source
Plato (Phaedo [c.374 BCE], 069b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.115
A Reaction
Aristotle also says that prudence (phronesis) makes virtue possible.
The
37 ideas
with the same theme
[defining and explaining the nature of true wisdom]:
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Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man
[Pythagoras, by Porphyry]
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Serene wisdom is freedom from ties, and indifference to fortune
[Anon (Bhag)]
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Wisdom is called 'beautiful', because it performs fine works
[Plato]
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Spiritual qualities only become advantageous with the growth of wisdom
[Plato]
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354
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Wisdom makes virtue and true goodness possible
[Plato]
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The finest branch of wisdom is justice and moderation in ordering states and families
[Plato]
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For Plato true wisdom is supernatural
[Plato, by Weil]
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78
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Wisdom is scientific and intuitive knowledge of what is by nature most precious
[Aristotle]
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Wisdom does not study happiness, because it is not concerned with processes
[Aristotle]
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548
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Knowledge chosen for its own sake, rather than for results, is wisdom
[Aristotle]
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Wisdom seeks explanations, causes, and reasons why things are as they are
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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There is practical wisdom (for action), and theoretical wisdom (for deep understanding)
[Aristotle, by Whitcomb]
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Words of wisdom are precise and clear
[Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)]
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Wisdom for one instant is as good as wisdom for eternity
[Chrysippus]
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Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral
[Cicero, by Long]
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Wisdom does not lie in books, and unread people can also become wise
[Seneca]
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Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom
[Rahulabhadra]
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The wisdom of a free man is a meditation on life, not on death
[Spinoza]
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If we are not wholly wise, we should live by good rules and maxims
[Spinoza]
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Wisdom is knowing all of the sciences, and their application
[Leibniz]
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Wisdom involves the desire to achieve perfection
[Leibniz]
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Wisdom is the science of happiness
[Leibniz]
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Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked
[Kant]
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Moral self-knowledge is the beginning of all human wisdom
[Kant]
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Wisdom is knowing the highest good, and conforming the will to it
[Kant]
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Wisdom emerges at the end of a process
[Hegel]
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The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity
[Nietzsche]
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Wisdom prevents us from being ruled by the moment
[Nietzsche]
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It is wisdom to believe what you desire, because belief is needed to achieve it
[James]
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A sense of timelessness is essential to wisdom
[Russell]
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Wisdom only implies the knowledge achievable in any normal lifetime
[Foot]
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We take courage, temperance, wisdom and justice as moral, but Aristotle takes wisdom as intellectual
[Foot]
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For ancient Greeks being wise was an ethical value
[Putnam]
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Wisdom needs both thought and passion, with each reflecting on the other
[Solomon]
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Philosophy needs wisdom about who we are, as well as how we ought to be
[Flanagan]
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Wisdom has a higher value than understanding, which has a higher value than knowledge
[Greco]
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Unlike knowledge, wisdom cannot be misused
[Zagzebski]
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