Insipient vs. Wisdom — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Insipient and Wisdom
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Insipient
Foolish; lacking wisdom; stupid
Wisdom
Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity 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.
Insipient
Wanting wisdom; stupid; foolish.
Wisdom
The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
Wisdom
Common sense; good judgment
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things" (Henry David Thoreau).
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Wisdom
The sum of learning through the ages; knowledge
"In those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations" (Maya Angelou).
Wisdom
Wise teachings of the ancient sages.
Wisdom
A wise outlook, plan, or course of action.
Wisdom
Wisdom(Bible) Wisdom of Solomon.
Wisdom
(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
Wisdom
(countable) A piece of wise advice.
Wisdom
The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
Wisdom
The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
Wisdom
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
Wisdom
(theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
Wisdom
(rare) A group of wombats.
Wisdom
(rare) A group of owls.
Wisdom
The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.
We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but in the doctrine of the spirit.
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom that they will yield everything to reason, and refuse everything to force.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Wisdom
The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwellsIn heads replete with thoughts of other men;Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass,The mere materials with which wisdom builds,Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place,Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Wisdom
Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
Wisdom
The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
Wisdom
Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
Wisdom
The quality of being prudent and sensible
Wisdom
An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
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