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Compassion. Self-understanding. Morality. Emotional stability. These words would seem to describe at least some of the universal traits attributed to wisdom, each of them broadly recognized and valued ...

Our ability to quickly remember things declines in our latter years. But decades of life gives us something of extraordinary value – wisdom. QUESTION: Is there one simple, clear definition of wisdom?

One day, somebody said, “I enjoy reading your column, but I’m not always sure what it does for the university.” It was one of those hot-potato moments. I thought fast and tossed this back: ...

Is it possible to define wisdom? Scientists have now delved deeper to find exactly that about this widely treasured virtue. In 2009, Dr. Dilip V. Jeste, and Dr. Thomas W. Meeks, both professors in the ...

When asked to define wisdom, Socrates just shrugged. He said he couldn’t find it, whatever it was, either in himself or in any of his fellow citizens. The news from Monika Ardelt is more encouraging.

Now, these two topics have come up in my life recently and I want to get other viewpoints on them. What does it mean when someone says you are mature? What does it mean when someone says that you are ...

As many of us know, Erik Erikson’s theory of the life course proposes a developmental task or crisis for eight stages of life. The task designated for old age, the eighth stage of life, is integrity ...

Could sagacity might have a neurobiological basis? In a new article, psychiatry experts attempt to identify the central, unifying elements that define wisdom. Compassion. Self-understanding. Morality.