Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Wisdom |
WisdomNoun1. Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment. 2. The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight. 3. Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. 4. The quality of being prudent and sensible. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Wisdom" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a wisdom", "the learning". |
Date "wisdom" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream you are possessed of wisdom, signifies your spirit will be brave under trying circumstances, and you will be able to overcome these trials and rise to prosperous living. If you think you lack wisdom, it implies you are wasting your native talents. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In its minimalist sense, wisdom is simply the ability and inclination to make choices that stand the sense of time. To say that a choice was wise implies that the action or inaction was strategically correct when judged by some set of values. In this sense, if a decision was, in retrospect, very smart, it was wise.
Another formulation along these lines is that wisdom is "Making the best use of available knowledge."
However, in a deeper sense, wisdom connotes an enlightened perspective and/or effective support for the long-term common good.
Insights and acts that are widely considered wise tend to
• arise from a broad (not narrow-minded) perspective,
• serve life in some broad or deep way (not just narrow self-interest)
• be grounded in but not limited by the past (experience, history, etc.) and the future (likely consequences)
• be informed by multiple forms of intelligence -- reason, intuition, heart, spirit, etc..
Because of its expanded perspective, wisdom is also often associated with humility, compassion, composure, humor, and a tolerance for dissonance, paradox, nuance, ambiguity, uncertainty, etc.
In its most universal and useful forms, wisdom tends to sense, work with and align people to the intrinsic wholeness and interconnectedness of life.
As with all decisions, a wise decision is made from incomplete information. But in a wise decision the chooser possesses a sense of the way that situations usually turn out and, in its deeper forms, a desire for the outcome to be broadly beneficial.
Classically, wisdom is considered to come with age. In some religions, wisdom is considered a gift granted by God.
A wise person is often called a "sage."
See also
- Virtue
- Streetwise
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wisdom."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wisdom is a town located in Beaverhead County, Montana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 114. The zip code of the area is 59761.
Geography
Wisdom is located at 45°36'58" North, 113°26'59" West (45.616120, -113.449742)1.According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.5 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.5 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.04% is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 114 people, 61 households, and 32 families residing in the town. The population density is 46.3/km² (120.0/mi²). There are 88 housing units at an average density of 35.8/km² (92.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.49% White, 0.00% African American, 1.75% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.75% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 1.75% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.There are 61 households out of which 11.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.5% are married couples living together, 1.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 47.5% are non-families. 41.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 1.85 and the average family size is 2.47.
In the town the population is spread out with 12.3% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 43.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 49 years. For every 100 females there are 103.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 122.2 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $24,583, and the median income for a family is $41,875. Males have a median income of $27,500 versus $21,406 for females. The per capita income for the town is $18,172. 12.9% of the population and 11.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 33.3% are 65 or older.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wisdom, Montana."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WISDOM | English | Waterborne information system distributed to other modes | Computing, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WisdomSynonyms: sapience (n), soundness (n), wiseness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: folly (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Caution | Coolness; Adjective: self-possession, self-command; presence of mind, sang froid; well-regulated mind; worldly wisdom, Fabian policy. |
Deity | Infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite truth, infinite mercy; omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence; unity, immutability, holiness, glory, majesty, sovereignty, infinity, eternity. |
Imbecility Folly | Folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness; (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance; (absurdity); rashness. |
Intellect | Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind. |
Solomon-like wisdom. | |
Knowledge | Phrase: one's eyes being opened; (disclosure); ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner; empta dolore docet experientia;gr/gnothi seauton/gr "half our knowledge we must snatch not take"; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"; "knowledge is power"; les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia; "the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds"; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss. |
Selfishness | Worldliness; Adjective: world wisdom. |
Skill | Knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire; tact; mother wit; (sagacity); discretion; (caution); finesse; craftiness; (cunning); management; (conduct); self-help. |
Know what's what, know a hawk from a handsaw, know what one is about, know on which side one's bread is buttered, know what's o'clock; have cut one's eye teeth, have cut one's wisdom teeth. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're the one person with enough kindness and wisdom to understand this, but Fred, you're the one person I can never tell (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.) In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Quezon, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) I know what you would say, and it would seem like wisdom, but for the warning in my heart (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Words of wisdom, Lloyd, my man. Words of wisdom (The Shining; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) You wanna get into their heads and part wisdom, knowledge, and truth (Go Fish; writing credit: Adam Herz) | |
Lyrics | And that's a wisdom, (Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now); performing artist: Cracker) But it's wisdom born of pain ("I Am Woman"; performing artist: Helen Reddy) Thanks for letting me bloom for your wisdom for your womb (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z) Pops for all the talks and all the wisdom he shared Unaware i just did what i (Youth Of The Nation; performing artist: P.O.D.) See the wisdom (The Promise Of A New Day; performing artist: Paula Abdul) | |
Clever | Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. (references; author: Mark Twain) Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom. (references; author: unknown) Wisdom whispers. Foolishness shouts. (references; author: unknown) The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists. (references; author: unknown) Knowledge is that which is acquired by learning. Wisdom is knowing what to do with it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Little Bit of Wisdom (1974) Nobody Is Norman Wisdom (1973) Pillar of Wisdom (1970) The Wisdom Series (1957) Wisdom of the Ages (1952) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Periodicals |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
High Tech |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Tooth of Wisdom / [William] Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The tariff cannot, with wisdom, be dealt with in the year preceding a Presidential election / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | I've got to be shown the wisdom of calling it to this city. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Statue Wisdom, Appellate Court Building, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wisdom, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wisdom, Montana. American Legion hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wisdom, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sinister wisdom / photograph by Tee Corinne. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Beacon : a magazine of esoteric philosophy, presenting the principles of the Ageless Wisdom as a contemporary way of life. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yang Tze-jung, a Chinese PLA scout hero armed with Mao Tse-tung thought and imbued with the revolutionary wisdom and bravery of the proletariat, in the modern revolutionary Peking Opera, "Taking tiger mountain by strategy". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | Wisdom comes alone through suffering. |
Benjamin Franklin | The doors of wisdom are never shut. |
Bhagavad Gita | Action should culminate in wisdom. |
Charles Dickens | A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
Daniel Webster | Wisdom begins at the end. |
Euripides | Cleverness is not wisdom. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Wisdom is found only in truth. |
John Selden | Wit and wisdom are born with a man. |
William James | Wisdom is learning what to overlook. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Such god-like princes indeed had some title to arbitrary power by that argument, that would prove absolute monarchy the best government, as that which God himself governs the universe by; because such kings partake of his wisdom and goodness. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | There is the path of wisdom. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His wisdom was formed from the light that came thence |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Ten years from that wisdom of children to his folly |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasury of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Netherlands | American exporters considering the Dutch market should follow the conventional wisdom that an American product with strong sales in the U.S. can expect to do well in the Netherlands. (references) |
Uae | The federal Supreme Court did not comment on the wisdom of registration of commercial agency agreements that contain clauses, such as foreign arbitration clauses, that could later be held unenforceable. (references) | |
Cyprus | Additionally, in view of increasing competitive pressures and low productivity gains, more people in Cyprus are questioning the wisdom of practices such as fixed shopping hours, and the Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) wage indexation system. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | I'm very happy. I'm doing what I love to do. I have finally reached the age where I realize that while I might not be the brightest guy in the room, I probably have more wisdom than the rest of them. |
Dan Rather | Well, certainly those would be embarrassments for the president. You know, the conventional wisdom is that both of those things are not going to happen. One of them possibly could happen, but your question is a good one. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | You will consider in your wisdom whether improvements in that system may yet be made, and particularly whether an uniform process of execution on sentences issuing from the Federal courts be not desirable through all the States. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | The examination will lead to beneficial retrenchments or produce a conviction of the wisdom of the measures to which the expenditure relates. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | I am happy in this opportunity of committing the arduous affairs of our Government to the collected wisdom of the Union. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Experience should teach us wisdom. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | By the frame of the Government under which we live this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Only as we show willingness and wisdom in giving counsel--in receiving counsel--and in sharing burdens, will we wisely perform the work of peace. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | With resolve and wisdom on the part of both nations, a good agreement is well within reach this year. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Let us begin by challenging our conventional wisdom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Wisdom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.40% of the time. "Wisdom" is used about 1,502 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.4% | 1,478 | 5,490 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.53% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,502 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wisdom" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wisdom | Last name | 2,000 | 5,844 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Wisdom" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a wisdom", "the learning". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wisdom". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Wisdom | Female, Male | English | A wisdom |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
| |||
1. Wisdom, MT |
Expressions using "wisdom": cut one's wisdom teeth ♦ God's Wisdom ♦ grow in wisdom ♦ have cut one's wisdom teeth ♦ hindsight wisdom ♦ Lip wisdom ♦ salt of wisdom ♦ showing wisdom ♦ the divine wisdom ♦ To cut one's wisdom teeth ♦ Wisdom Chi Kung ♦ wisdom literature ♦ wisdom teeth ♦ wisdom tooth ♦ with wisdom ♦ world wisdom ♦ worldly wisdom. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wisdom": wisdom-giving, wisdom-tooth. | |
Ending with "wisdom": folk-wisdom, peasant-wisdom, rug-wisdom, street-wisdom. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wisdom | 1,047 | seven pillar of wisdom | 26 |
wisdom tooth | 810 | norman wisdom | 26 |
words of wisdom | 590 | font wisdom | 25 |
wisdom tooth extraction | 193 | poem wisdom | 24 |
wisdom tooth removal | 174 | wisdom tooth pulled | 23 |
wisdom quote | 109 | native american wisdom | 20 |
wisdom tooth pain | 75 | wisdom of solomon | 20 |
impacted wisdom tooth | 71 | ancient wisdom | 19 |
knowledge wisdom truth | 48 | god wisdom | 18 |
word wisdom | 46 | wisdom montana | 18 |
knowing next wisdom | 46 | wisdom radio | 18 |
funny wisdom words | 37 | supreme wisdom | 18 |
wisdom tooth surgery | 33 | planet wisdom | 16 |
wisdom zelda | 31 | wisdom tooth symptom | 16 |
book of wisdom | 30 | channel wisdom | 16 |
world of wisdom | 29 | athena goddess wisdom | 15 |
pearl of wisdom | 28 | marriage wisdom words | 15 |
heart of wisdom | 27 | wisdom mt | 14 |
daily wisdom | 26 | woman of wisdom | 14 |
wisdom tooth dry socket | 26 | wisdom of the age | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wisdom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | wysheid. (various references) | |
Albanian | urtësi (docility, ductility, meekness, prudence, sapience), mençuri (discretion, intelligence, policy, wit). (various references) | |
Arabic | حكمة (aphorism, discreetness, foresight, maxim, policy, proverb, prudence, sagacity, sapience, say, sobering, wholesomeness), حصافة (prudence, sagacity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сентенции, мъдрости, мъдрост (oracle, sapience, sentence), знание (cognition, cognizance, familiarity, information, knowing, knowledge, notion, privity), проникновение (discernment, insight, penetration, vision). (various references) | |
Chinese | 智慧 (knowledge). (various references) | |
Czech | rozumnost (intellectuality, rationality, sanity), moudrost (sapience). (various references) | |
Danish | visdomstand (dens serotinus, wisdom tooth), dens serotinus (dens serotinus, wisdom tooth), dens sapientiae (dens serotinus, wisdom tooth). (various references) | |
Dutch | wijsheid, wijsheid, wýsheid. (various references) | |
Esperanto | saĝo, saĝeco. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vísdómur, klókskapur. (various references) | |
Farsi | فرزانگی , معرفت (Cognition, Cognizance, Knowledge, Letter), حکمت (Doctrine, Motto), عقل (Intellect, Reason, Sagacity, Tact), خرد (Inconsiderable, Intellect, Little, Minuscule, Part, Petty, Reason, Retail, Tiny), داناءی (Knowledge, Sagacity), دانش (Knowledge, Letter, Scholarship, Science, Witting). (various references) | |
Finnish | viisaus (cleverness, judiciousness). (various references) | |
French | sagesse (wit). (various references) | |
German | Weisheit (sagacity, sageness, sapience, saw, wise saying), Klugheit (acuity, astuteness, brightness, cleverness, cunningness, intelligence, judiciousness, knowledgeability, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, shrewdness, soundness). (various references) | |
Greek | σύνεση (caution, discretion, gumption, prudence, sageness), σοφία (learning, sageness, sapience). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תושי" (advice, insight, nous, presence of mind, resource, resourcefulness, resources, sagacity), תבו " (discreetness, discretion, intelligence, knowledge, prudence, reason, sagacity, understanding), שכל (brains, grey matter, insight, intellect, intelligence, mind, reason, savvy, sense, wit), ערמ" (craftiness, cunning, guile, machination, oodle, prudence, shrewdness, wile, wit), עצ" (advice, counsel, deliberation, device, tip, xylem), חכמ" (insight, intelligence, knowledge, prudence), "שכל (cleverness, intelligence), "עת (knowledge), "ע" (estimation, insight, knowledge, mind, opinion, say, understanding, view), בי " (comprehension, insight, intellect, prudence, understanding), בו ות (cleverness, intelligence, sagacity, understanding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bölcsesség (depth, store of wisdom, wit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebijaksanaan (discretion, policy, prudence, wit), kebijakan (policy), kearifan (learning). (various references) | |
Italian | freccia (arrow, bolt, indicator), saggezza (cleverness, sagaciousness, sageness, sapience). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賢明 (intelligence, prudence), 般若 (Perfection of Wisdom, Prajnaparamita), 知恵 (advice, intelligence, sagacity, sense, wit), 悟性 (understanding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうめい (sagacity), さいき (bill collector, comeback, cruel creditor, equipment used in rituals, rally, recovery, recursive, reflexive, restoration, talent), かい" (comprehension, enlightenment, nursing, remorse, repentance, safe custody), "せい (emphasizing one's speech, stress, understanding), りはつ (cleverness, haircut, intelligence), めいたつ, めいてつ (sagacity, wise man), け"めい (eagerness, earnestness, intelligence, prudence, risking one's life, subject, term, title), は"にゃ (Perfection of Wisdom, Prajnaparamita), ちりょく (brains, fertility, intellectual power, intelligence, mental capacity, mental powers), ちりょ (foresight, sagacity), ちえ (advice, intellect, intelligence, sagacity, sense, wit), えいち (intellect, intelligence). (various references) | |
Korean | 지혜. (various references) | |
Manx | creenaght (art, astuteness, policy, prudence). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isdomway.(various references) | |
Polish | mądrze (wisely, with wisdom). (various references) | |
Portuguese | sensatez (prudence, solidity), sabedoria (erudition, knowledge, sapience, scholarship), juízo (brain, discretion, judgement, judgment, opinion, savvy, sense, senses, wit). (various references) | |
Romanian | sfãtoşenie (chattiness, talkativeness, volubility), sagacitate (acumen, sagacity), minte (brain, imagination, intellect, judgment, mind, nous, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, thinking, wit, wits), judecatã (award, bar, decision, inquest, judgement, law, reason, Rede, sentence, trial, understanding, verdict, view), cuminţenie (cleverness, discretion, reason, reasonableness, sapience, sense, seriousness), bun-simţ (good-breeding, sanity, sense, sobriety), adâncime (abyss, bottom, deep, deepness, depth, height, horizon, pregnancy, profound, profoundness, profundity), înţelepciune (discretion, philosophy, rationality, reason, sagacity, sapience, sobriety). (various references) | |
Russian | мудрость (sageness, sapience). (various references) | |
Scottish | gliocas (prudence). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mudrost (astuteness, skill). (various references) | |
Spanish | sabiduría (knowledge, sageness). (various references) | |
Swahili | ujinga. (various references) | |
Swedish | vishet, visdom, klokhet (prudence, sagacity, sanity). (various references) | |
Tagalog | katalinúhan, karunúngan. (various references) | |
Turkish | irfan (knowledge, lore), ilim (learning, lore, science), hikmet (gnome, mystery, profoundness, profundity, reason, the divine wisdom), bilgelik (erudition, savoir vivre), akil (brain, intelligence), akıllılık (cleverness, deepness, intelligence, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wit). (various references) | |
Turkmen | parasat, paяhas. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ученість (erudition, learning, lore, scholarship), розсудливість (advisability, canniness, prudence, sobriety, soundness), мудрість (oracularity, sapience), мудре слово, любомудрість. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính khôn ngoan sự từng tri, sự thông thái (polymathy), sự lịch duyệt kiến thức, sự hiểu biết (cognizance, intellection, savvy, understanding), học thức (acquirement, attainment, erudition). (various references) | |
Welsh | doethineb, doenitheb, callineb (sense). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | taltal, zu. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | philosophia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sapientia. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | cistâ, dãm, mastîm, xratêush. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | KakoV meq' ubrewV prassei kaka oi de eautwn epignwmoneV sofoi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Inter superbos semper iurgia sunt qui autem agunt cuncta consilio reguntur sapientia |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Among proude men euermor ben striues; who forsothe alle thingis don with counseil, ben gouerned with wisdam. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well-advised is wisdom. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Tungod sa pagkamapahitas-on modangat lamang ang panagkabingkil; Apan sa maayong tinambagan mao ang kaalam. |
| Croatian | Oholost raða samo svaðu, a mudrost je u onih koji primaju savjet. |
| Danish | Ved Hovmod vækkes kun Splid, hos dem, der lader sig råde, er Visdom. |
| Dutch | Door hovaardigheid maakt men niet dan gekijf; maar bij de beradenen is wijsheid. |
| Finnish | Ylpeys tuottaa pelkkää toraa, mutta jotka ottavat neuvon varteen, niillä on viisaus. |
| French | C`est seulement par orgueil qu`on excite des querelles, Mais la sagesse est avec ceux qui écoutent les conseils. |
| German | Unter den Stolzen ist immer Hader; aber Weisheit ist bei denen, die sich raten lassen. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun awogan yo toujou ap pouse dife. Men, moun ki koute konsèy, se moun ki gen bon konprann. |
| Hungarian | Csak háborúság lesz a kevélységbõl: azoknál pedig, a kik a tanácsot beveszik, bölcseség van. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Keangkuhan hanya menghasilkan pertengkaran; orang yang bijaksana mau menerima ajaran. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dengan congkak diadakan orang tengkar belaka, tetapi hikmat adalah serta dengan orang yang mendapat ikhtiar yang baik. |
| Italian | L'insolenza provoca soltanto contese, la sapienza si trova presso coloro che prendono consiglio. |
| Maori | ¶ He totohe anake i ahu mai i te whakapehapeha: he whakaaro nui ia kei te hunga i nga kupu tika. |
| Norwegian | Ved overmot voldes bare trette, men hos dem som lar sig råde, er visdom. |
| Rumanian | Prin mkndrie se aykyq numai certuri, dar knyelepciunea este cu cel ce ascultq sfaturile. - |
| Russian | пФ ЧЩУПЛПНЕТЙС ТПЙУИП"ЙФ ТБЪ"ПТ, Б Х УПЧЕФХАЭЙИУС--НХ"ТПУФШ. |
| Spanish | Ciertamente la soberbia producirá contienda, pero con los que admiten consejo está la sabiduría. |
| Swedish | Genom övermod kommer man allenast split åstad, men hos dem som taga emot råd är vishet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wisdom": wisdoms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wisdom": unwisdom. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wisdom": unwisdoms. (additional references) | |
| |
"Wisdom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gidom, Twisdton, widsom, winsdom, wisdome, wisdon, wisdow, wisedom, Wixsom. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wisdom" (pronounced wi"zdum) |
| 3 | -d u m | addendum, boredom, memorandum, modem, officialdom, random, chiefdom, condom, corundum, dukedom, earldom, fiefdom, freedom, kingdom, macadam, madam, Madame, martyrdom, referendum, Sedum, seldom, sheikdom, Sodom, stardom, subkingdom, tandem. |
Source: compiled by the editor ( | ||
