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Single Idea 19396

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom]

Full Idea

Wisdom is a perfect knowledge of the principles of all the sciences and of the art of applying them.

Gist of Idea

Wisdom is knowing all of the sciences, and their application

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (On Wisdom [1693], 0)

Book Reference

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.77


A Reaction

'Sciences' should be understood fairly broadly here (e.g. of architecture, agriculture, grammar). This is a scholar's vision of wisdom, very different from the notion of the wisest person in a village full of illiterate people.