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We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. — Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Remembrance of Things Past, Vol II: Within a Budding Grove
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Introduction1
5-75, 1 season, 74 episodes (Glamor)
Dictionary
wisdom : (a) ability to discern inner qualities and relationships (b) good sense [common sense] (c) accumulated philosophical or scientific learning — Webster See also OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Wisdom 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. — Wikipedia
Wisdom (Encyclopædia Britannica)
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Inspiration
To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series, Experience
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Exploration
Athena’s Office
Athena, in ancient Greek religion, was the goddess of handicraft, and wisdom. She was associated with birds (especially the owl). Her birth to Zeus and contest with Poseidon for suzerainty of Athens were depicted on the Parthenon. Her birthday festival was the Panathenaea. — Encyclopædia Britannica
Muse, In Greco-Roman religion and myth, any of a group of sister goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (Memory). A festival was held in their honour every four years near Mount Helicon, the centre of their cult in Greece. They probably began as the patron goddesses of poets, though later their range was extended to include all the liberal arts and sciences. — Encyclopædia Britannica
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Foundation
Philosophy
Wisdom in Philosphy (Encyclopædia Britannica)
What is Wisdom? (Stephen Palmquist, The Tree of Philosophy)
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Preservation
The Royal Society
Gregor Reisch’s Works, Margarita Philosophica (Wikipedia)
History
Wisdom of History (J. Rufus Fears, The Great Courses)
Quotation
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes About History (Wisdom & Historical Studies, Age of the Sage)
Quotations Page
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
Bibliography
Wisdom (Judith Glück, Oxford Bibliographies)
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Participation
Education
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
News
Book
Government
Document
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Expression
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Mr. Roger’s Books (WorldCat)
Fun
Poem
The DIKW pyramid, also known variously as the DIKW hierarchy, wisdom hierarchy, knowledge hierarchy, information hierarchy, information pyramid, and the data pyramid, refers loosely to a class of models for representing purported structural and/or functional relationships between the communication content types of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. — Wikipedia
Most writers about the hierarchy refer to this passage from T. S. Eliot’s The Rock.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Russell Ackoff popularized the hierarchy to categorize the content of communication.
From data to wisdom (Russell L. Ackoff, Journal of Applies Systems Analysis)
On passing through 80 (Russell L. Ackoff, Systemic practice and action research)
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These are links to pages about closely related subjects.
DIKW Content Hierarchy
Communication, Content, Data, Information and Knowledge
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