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wisdom

Deep understanding or knowledge of a subject

Entityvirtue knowledge type type of intelligenceQ799

Also known as sapience · wise · sagacity · sagacious · wit

Instance of: virtue
, knowledge type
, type of intelligence
Subclass of: understanding
, knowledge
Part of: five Confucian virtues
, three virtues of Confucianism

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Wisdom, also known as sapience, is defined by psychologists as a combination of "wit and virtue," the ability to apply expert tacit and experiential knowledge, balancing intrapersonal, interpersonal and institutional interests, to deal with complex questions of life and attain a common good. Wisdom can be viewed as a stable personality trait, but also as context-bound process, meaning that a person in some contexts behaves wisely, but in other contexts does not. Wisdom can also be viewed as influenced and determined by sociocultural norms and traditions. Wisdom can be viewed solely as wise behaviour, describing actions which lead to "an altruistic outcome by creatively and successfully solving problems."

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53 statements · 23% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Different from: Wisdom
sentience
Native label: 知

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33 identifiers linking wisdom across the web's reference databases

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23%

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