Be Wiser than Being Just Wise

Life is a great teacher as we never really ever stop learning from our experiences in life. There is a quote that goes as below by Otto Von Bismarck;

This is how I would quote it and I would add that the world is full of simply “wise people” and not so many “wiser ones”, as we tend to have to learn things through our own experience.

I would agree that if we are really smart, we would have certainly learnt from our life experiences and learn to avoid the same mistakes through again. But unfortunately it just doesn’t seem to go this way most of the time.   

This why it is said that experience is the best teacher, in fact we were born to learn and it never stop us from learning and experiencing every bitter and sweet of life has for us. Our child-like curiosity can get the best of us and we will just have to see for ourselves if it will work out or not whatever it is. 

While growing up it seems to be essential to not take people’s word for granted and should always have the buying desire to prove other’s wrong, especially if they emphasize right over us. But then, as time goes on you would start to figure that it might have been a lot better if you had paid much more attention to the guide who had been there in order to save yourself from a lot of time and at times the pain.  This could tend to linger on a certain pride that battles with having to give in and finally and accept that someone else just might know what they are saying.

Weird right! but we with our skeptical mind more often than want to be right, sometimes even when we are wrong. I believe that the wisdom only shines its light on us when we finally realize that we are not actually the “all-in-all” that we think we are and we really need to pay attention to others on certain things that we might not good or not knowing by just believing we know when we don’t.  

It is wonderful that we can have such a vast array of talents and intelligence around us but from whom did we draw it.  We just need to use this and allow wisdom to “kick in”.

Wisdom comes with age and experiences. We are just humans...