Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” This is easily understood as true, for knowledge is quickly acquired with effort, but wisdom requires experience, the best of all ...

The turn of the new year is an opportunity to take stock of what we value, to let go of bad habits and to begin again.” ...

Let’s distinguish wisdom from knowledge in general. It is more than just practical information about how the world is, how to maintain things like our health or our prosperity. Wisdom refers to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. Popular belief suggests we gain wisdom through life ...

This post is part of a “Wisdom in Mainstream (Academic, Research, and Applied) Psychology Series.” We take a look at the dominant models and perspectives in the field studying wisdom and see what they ...

There are three basic ways to express your thoughts about anything: Opinions, knowledge and wisdom. Opinions are your personal reflections on any subject, from politics to sports. They may or may not ...

I once attended a seminar on “vocation” delivered by a Benedictine monk. He recounted how, if someone bounced up to him with a beaming smile and declared, “I am convinced God has called me to be a ...

Let’s for a second imagine two very different people, with two very different backgrounds, studying the same thing in their own unique ways. In this case, it’s the sea. The first is a university ...

When the ordinary, Bible-believing Christian hears the radically unorthodox pronouncements of some clergymen, he is perplexed. He finds it hard to understand how men whose ordination vows bind them to ...