Wisdom and experience are different................................. Experience can lead to wisdom............ but the question is... "can you get there without it"? "Experience" may refer both to mentally unprocessed and immediately-perceived events as well as to the purported wisdom gained from later reflection on those events or interpretation of them. Wisdom is probably developed by experience but probably not taught by it. Aristotle defines wisdom as knowledge of causes: why things exist in a particular fashion. So then how best to know "why" is the real question?
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I was reading yesterday and found this quote that seems to go to the heart of the question as to what part experience has to have in gaining wisdom....................................
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Why will man not learn wisdom by precept at this late age of the world, when we have such a cloud of witnesses and examples before us, and not be obliged to learn by sad experience everything we know.
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Other Quotes of interest
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"Wise men say nothing in dangerous times." ― Aesop
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." ― Thomas Jefferson
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." ― St. Augustine
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools
because they have to say something." ― Plato
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." ― Alfred Lord Tennyson
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing
if the audience is deaf." ― Walter Lippmann
"All I know is that I know nothing." ― Socrates
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