We tend to assume that wisdom accumulates naturally with experience. Time passes, mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and judgment […]

Wisdom is a word that features in book titles in the ‘Self-help’ section of bookshops, but not so much in […]

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Many of the great artists were travellers. Gauguin travelled to the islands of Martinique and Tahiti for inspiration; Van Gogh […]

It is unclear just how the “Man from Song” (Songren) acquired his reputation, but classical literature is replete with stories […]

Editor of New Philosopher Zan Boag interviews Hilde Lindemann, Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the former editor […]

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  “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn vos Savant     […]

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“No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” — Niels Bohr     In quantum physics, […]

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“To be able to respond to anger without bitterness, to respond to fear without retreat, to meet joy without arrogance […]

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