Paul the Apostle, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, argued that there is both secular and divine wisdom, urging Christians to pursue the latter.

Wisdom is also important within Christianity. She was said to be born from Jupiter's forehead. Her symbol was the owl which is still a popular representation of wisdom, because it can see in darkness. She also represents skillful knowledge and the virtues, especially chastity. The ancient Romans also valued wisdom which was personified in Minerva, or Pallas. Thus it became popularly immortalized in the phrase ' I know that I know nothing' that it is wise to recognize one's own ignorance and to value epistemic humility. According to Plato's Apology, Socrates decided to investigate the people who might be considered wiser than him, concluding they lacked true knowledge: ДЄccording to Plato and Xenophon, the Pythia of the Delphic Oracle answered the question 'who is the wisest man in Greece?' by stating Socrates was the wisest. He was the first to make the distinction between phronesis and sophia. Aristotle, in Metaphysics, defined wisdom as understanding why things are a certain way ( causality), which is deeper than merely knowing things are a certain way. This permeates Plato's dialogue in The Republic the leaders of his proposed utopia are philosopher kings who understand the Form of the Good and possess the courage to act accordingly. To Socrates and Plato, philosophy was literally the love of wisdom ( philo- sophia). Greek tradition recorded the earliest introducers of wisdom in the Seven Sages of Greece. He was contrasted with Hermes, who was related to the sciences and technical wisdom, and, in the first centuries after Christ, was associated with Thoth in an Egyptian syncretism, under the name Hermes Trimegistus.

Apollo was considered the god who prophesied through the priestesses ( Pythia) in the Temple of Apollo (Delphi), where the aphorism ' know thyself' ( gnЕЌthi seauton) was inscribed (part of the wisdom of the Delphic maxims). Apollo was also considered a god of wisdom, designated as the conductor of the Muses ( Musagetes), who were personifications of the sciences and of the inspired and poetic arts According to Plato in his Cratylus, the name of Apollo could also mean ' Ballon' (archer) and ' Omopoulon' (unifier of poles ), since this god was responsible for divine and true inspirations, thus considered an archer who was always right in healing and oracles: 'he is an ever-darting archer'. Athena was portrayed as strong, fair, merciful, and chaste. Metis was the first wife of Zeus, who, according to Hesiod's Theogony, had devoured her pregnant Zeus earned the title of MГЄtieta ('The Wise Counselor') after that, as Metis was the embodiment of wisdom, and he gave birth to Athena, who is said to have sprung from his head. The ancient Greeks considered wisdom to be an important virtue, personified as the goddesses Metis and Athena. Mythological and philosophical perspectives Wisdom is the capacity to have foreknowledge of something, to know the consequences (both positive and negative) of all the available course of actions, and to yield or take the options with the most advantage either for present or future implication. In social and psychological sciences, several distinct approaches to wisdom exist, with major advances made in the last two decades with respect to operationalization and measurement of wisdom as a psychological construct. Sutton and Andrew Hargadon defined the 'attitude of wisdom' as 'acting with knowledge while doubting what one knows'. of a high or abstruse kind) enlightenment, learning, erudition.' Charles Haddon Spurgeon defined wisdom as 'the right use of knowledge'.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines wisdom as 'Capacity of judging rightly in matters relating to life and conduct soundness of judgment in the choice of means and ends sometimes, less strictly, sound sense, esp. Just then, I had a weiosr situation with the word. Is there a shorthand way to describe this feeling so that people will know what I mean without the long explanation? You can refer to such words as (which itself looks out-of-place to the untrained eye). Д«ut what you're saying is that there are words that are written in a way that simply looks out-of-place, at least to the parsing system of the beholder. It's saying that you use a word simply because you are used to using it, without any other purpose and without any reference to its meaning-words like (thinking of 'stamp''s meaning when saying it? likely no),, ,, ,, ,. Note: is a different concept from what you're saying.

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