page_title: Wisdom
hierarchical_section_title: Wisdom
context_page_description: Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.
  Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.
context_section_description: Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.
  Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.
caption: Wisdom Defending Youth Against Love by Meynier, c. 1810
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