WISDOM

WISDOM

Wisdom and foolishness always look like siblings, but their effects are direct opposite of one and the other. Foolishness destroys its bearer, but wisdom raises, builds, and makes a man great. The abundant display of foolishness in today's society has made it seem of better value than wisdom.

Unfortunately, the foolish man sees himself as wise, displays his foolishness, makes mockery of himself but never realises his foolishness, and never gains wisdom for liberation. On the other hand, the wise man knows himself to be a fool, strives to know more, learn more, thereby becoming wiser.

Mark Twain once said, "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)." Wisdom is not as cheap and on common display as foolishness, when you find yourself in the crowd, when you receive the applause of the multitude, then you should know you are heading in the mediocre direction, you must at that point retrace your steps and see if you are on the right track.

It is not enough to know, like Albert Einstein said, "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." knowledge without application is useless, and knowledge with wrong application is dangerous. Wisdom is profitable for direction in all things, we must seek to be wise irrespective of our age, race, and class, and according to Aristotle, "knowing yourself is the beginning of WISDOM."

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John Kamikun

Author, "366 days of wisdom".