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  • Experience.
  • It comes best of all when age is combined with experience.
  • It comes with learning from your experiences. Some people can go through their whole life, and never gain wisdom, because they never learn anything from their experiences. I have a 19 year old blog friend who writes with such wisdom, you would think he is much older than 19.
  • your experiences come over time so you must age to get the experiences... Wisdom comes from experience but you need time to experience... But you need to learn from your experiences to gain wisdom, other wise you would always remain as a toddler or infant if you did not learn. Correct?
  • Well... I don't know about age. However for me, experience has been learning from my own mistakes while wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others. I've had too much experience and not enough wisdom.
  • For some people, wisdom never comes. For others, I think it comes from experience.
  • Wisdom comes with age, but age does not always come with wisdom.
  • Neither, though it does take some time. It only comes from taking in knowledge and then applying that knowledge. That's what wisdom is. You can learn and take in all the knowledge in the whole world but if you do nothing with it, even as a 80 year old guy, you are not wise.
  • Age alone does not bring wisdom. Generally you gain more life experiences with age though so age generally grants one access to more life experiences. But wisdom is a Gift that requires more than life experience, you have to have the ability to learn from life experiences of yourself and others, and be willing to try to understand and relate to other persons and situations.
  • Age alone rarely gives wisdom. Life's hard knocks and other experiences are what give people wisdom.
  • Experience makes one feel aged... pronounce the last word ay-jed. yes, you can put that one in your next book of philosophical aphorisms. Though I'm sure a thousand wise men have said it in vastly more profound ways.
  • Both and neither. Experience - Experience teaches a lot. Things you should do, things you shouldn't do, how you and other people react to circumstances, etc. The more you have, or learn about, the more wise you become. With Age, you gain more life experiences, so without the experiences, unless you learn from the "neiter", below, you do NOT become wise. Thus, as you age and gain knowledge from your experiences and those of others, the more wise you become. HOWEVER, it IS possible to learn without experiencing. For example, the child who learns how to treat other people from their parents has gained knowledge they never experienced, but it has made them wise in THAT regard. Thus, the more you understand other people, and their experiences, the more wise you become. Therefore, how you interpret what you (and others) have learned is wisdom. Your wisdom and how you describe things may be slightly different from others, but in general, the descriptions of wise people will be relatively similar, or at least others will recognize that it might be wise to think of things in a similar way.
  • Wisdom comes with both age and experience and the desire to listen, to learn from those who have aged before us.
  • Both. Your life is shaped by your experiences but with age comes a better understanding of a lot of things. I am amazed at how much more I know now then I did at school and I have only been out for 2 years.
  • Sheeet! Maybe neither! ;-)
  • experience i am 17 and i am called an old soul.
  • I would say that either leads to wisdom.I would say meditation,inner silence, and self reflection lead to wisdom.Age makes know difference for some very young people seem wise beyond their years and the older ones lack wisdom.Experiences in the outside world do not lead to wisdom if they are not perceived with our inner consciousness and what out relationship is to the world and the people in it.One can only know themselves with inner contemplation for others cannot help for how could others know you better than you knowing yourself.
  • experience I find brings wisdom many times first as age does not always bring wisdom to some no matter how old they get, as I have seen some really dumb but old people just can't learn no matter how old they get I have 8 adopted nieces and they all seemed old, made so by the life's experiences that have had to go though, even though some are young in yrs. There faces and eyes are old before their times.
  • Wisdom is too complicated for me to really define, let alone try to suggest how you get it. I agree that self reflection must be a way, and experience...but it all depends on how you perceive this wisdom, and how you wish to take it in and what you do with it. That's when age goes wrong.
  • Experience
  • experience but it kinda goes hand in hand since you know you get more experience when you get older
  • Age by learned experience. No learning from experience then no wisdom, grasshopper.
  • Experience, bar none. I know and 18 year old guy who comes up with the most wise answers, and I know 60 year old fools who couldn't distinguish a teen running to catch up with his friends, versus running from the police. Age does not give wisdom because age doesn't teach you anything, getting out and experiencing the world and learning FIRST hand how to do things in life will give you experience. Who is wiser, a 50 year old man who just sat on his ass his whole life wasting away on a computer, or a 25 year old who traveled the world, went cliff jumping, hitchhiked, partied, etc? Think that 50 year old will know anything about the complexities of the human mind? Or how to understand a human character? I bet that 25 year old would, and that understanding gives him wisdom when it comes to future decisions.
  • Having known a few old dumbasses,I'd have to go with experience ;)
  • It takes both
  • i belive that wisdom comes with experience because if you have been through that issue then you know how to take it on.
  • Experiance, if you live to 100 in a bubble without deep communication or lifechanging event you could not be as a wise as a twenty year old who has travelled everywhere and seen everything.
  • No guarantee with either, yo. ;-)
  • Both :)
  • Neither. Experience doesn't give wisdom because you can experience something incorrectly and believe it is true, which in turn would make you a fool. Fools aren't wise, therefore they cannot acquire wisdom. Age is nothing more than a number, and, though some numbers may bring you wisdom if used correctly, is useless to know of.
  • Wisdom comes from the experience of age.
  • Experience. Wisdom is knowledge used intelligently. Generally speaking, one cannot translate knowledge into wisdom without considerable experience. Age would be a misleading indicator of wisdom as wisdom is not limited to any particular age.
  • Experience helps, but mostly knowledge is the tool to make right decisions attributed to wisdom. Age is not really a factor, sometimes people can be 60 going to 18... no maturity at all.
  • Experience. I know a lot of really young people who are more mature than people forty years older than them.
  • Experience some old people haven't gotten it yet.
  • desire
  • Experience
  • Can't count on it with either, eh? ;-)
  • Neither. Experience may be proportional to age, but does not imply wisdom. Wisdom is a gift, and a gift that may be increased according to one's desire for more.
  • Yes. But there are many other possible sources of wisdom. Teachers, books, movies, etc. Finally there is the common denominator that need to always be present before wisdom can appear: That you notice what you see, and think about it. regards JakobA
  • Both, with any luck. It's not a done deal though. Like my great-grandma used to say, "Ain't no fool like an old fool." On the other hand, she had another saying that she was prone to hit you with if you said by way of explanation or apology, "But I thought. . ." To which she would reply, "Don't nobody think but old folks and fools. And you sure ain't old!" God love her and rest her soul. ;)
  • Age and experience helps but is no guarantee in themselves. Wisdom comes from having the hunger to learn and the humility to realise that you don't know everything.
  • first and foremost it counts on the person, second it comes with both but i think more with experience and with the maturity that people act or react to these said experiences
  • Experience is the best teacher.
  • with age comes experience. with experience comes wisdom.
  • The old experienced fools are legion. So it's neither age nor experience. - I think it's more likely to come with thought, reflection, and a willingness to learn and to change ourselves. - Most of us, most of the time, keep butting our heads against the same walls. Never stopping to look around for the doors.
  • ohh, experience, age has nearly nothing to do with it, except allowing you to have certain experiences
  • Wisdom is having knowledge.... Being WISE is knowing how and when to use that knowledge
  • i think it comes from experience... And, when we age, we experience many things... :-)
  • Experience first and foremost. However age gives you the opportunity for more experiences.
  • For some people it's a combination of both. :)
  • Well I'm a lil stuck with this one..experience on one hand these days one can go through many things at a young age and barely make it to early 30s. But if one takes a moment and listens to the Wise ole man one might not make the mistkes one does as a youngster and glide through and make his life a little bit easier.
  • experience!! - you get experiences as you grow older, and therefore knowledge!! therefore you can not gain knowledge unless you grow older so ... wisdom comes with age!! peace out!!
  • Neither. Age, as we all know, will just keep on counting. But how about experience? Here’s an example. Fools experience bad things and at last they knew that bad things will cause them bad things too, and yet, still they go into the way that they would experience those same bad things again. As if a kid plays with the candle light. The kid didn’t know that the fire was hot, so he touched it and his finger was bruised. Now that he knows, he tries to touch it again, even when he knows that it would bruise him again, thinking it might not be that hot anymore. Wisdom only comes with experience if only that kid learned his lesson that fire won’t be anything close to being cold even how many times he tries to touch it.
  • neither. It comes from what they learned from experience...that they have gained as they have aged. If you have experiences, but never learn from them...you gain nothing. If you age without experience...you are still nieve. Knowledge comes from what you have been taught...through text. Wisdom is understanding... Understanding the whole
  • Honestly, ive seen children with with more wisdom than most adults. Ive heard children answer lifes biggest questions with a simple answer, where older and "wiser" men have failed. Children are open to the world because they havent been exposed to society. They are able to experience far more for themselves without the postulates of society holding them back. Age has nothing to do with it.
  • wisdom comes with neither age nor experience. it comes with insight
  • Experience. A person who gains wisdom with age is essentially gaining it by experience. Unless they sit in a room for their entire life. They're still not going to be as smart as others though.
  • People think old people a wiser because of age but its just because theyre older so they have more experience to be wise. so experience
  • Experience from past lives.
  • Both, but experience more than age alone. Unfortunately, sometimes age comes alone!
  • 'Wisdom' is knowing how to do things properly. God created 'Wisdom' in the image of Himself...

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