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Do you have to be old to be wise?

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  1. wisdom comes with age and maturity but there is an inborn wisdom that transcends that of the sages and wise men that occasionally is instilled at birth.


  2. does anyone have to die to show that once they were alive?

    becoming old is a part of natural law, physical in nature. Becoming wise is  a part of knowing one's self potential, psychological. Any child who is born and if allowed, will grow and live for several years and surely will die one day. But the same child during his lifetime would have done some good things which will last for centuries, wisdom lies there. Life is all about experiences, one after the another like the waves from a sea....the first one is never the second one........one may be calm, the other one violent....you can never call them back....but you can learn from them. So, the age of a person doesn't matter to attain wisdom, it's all about experiences...good or bad. Every time a wise man learns a new thing about life and applies into his life and shares it to another. It is always better to die at an early age with wisdom than to live up to old age and die as an idiot.

  3. no. experience makes you wise, no matter what age.

  4. No.

    That's the most annoying thing about the election coverage. People keep on trying to pretend like you have to be.

  5. nope..

    solomon..he wasnt old when he asked for wisdom!

  6. No...

    but. life experience does make us wise...  

  7. not necessarily.

    i think its more about experience.

    you can be young and have experienced more things in life than an older person.

    or vice-versa.


  8. i dont think so.

    but you need to have alot of expirience.

    thats what wise means.

    a kid is wiser on how to get out of doing chores then an old person is.

    and if your talking about wiseness on life,

    then, yeah most old people know more then young kids.

    its all about expirence.

  9. no,anyone can be wise.wise is kinda like being smart,not smart like math,but in advice.a 5 year old could be wise,and 80 year old could be wise.

  10. the older the better usually

  11. no because, you just have to be street smart, what goin on. and yeah

  12. Well, young people can be much wiser than old people.

  13. no

    I'm 13

    and i think I'm pretty wise about the decision's i make.


  14. No, but you need to be willing to search for answers for all sides, reason logically and apply what you gleam from your answers.  You must above all be willing to listen.  If that can be done, then you can transcend the measurement of time and age and teach the teachers!

  15. No, you do not have to be old to be wise. Though wisdom does come with age. Although some people will remain ignorant throughout their lives. Personal experiences are what age and mature a person on the inside, letting them become more aware of themselves and their surroundings causing them to wisen up.  

  16. I believe the wisest people I have ever met were OLD people...BUT...I have met many old people that were idiots..had nothing to teach me because they learned nothing in their life time...wasted their lives....

    But, it does take a life time to be wise.....the smarter you are, the better choices you make in your life, if you take a lesson from all your F*** ups, you will be wise.  Don;t blame anyone but yourself for your short-comings....and you will learn..HUGS!!

    People can become wise at a very young age because they have to....life situations, etc....SAD but true

  17. No, younger people may have been through more things than older people have. So therefore, they've learned more so they could be a lot smarter than an older person.

  18. Yes.  You must be old.  How old?  That depends.

    Smart = being able to guess what will happen in a situation.

    Wisdom=having been in that situation, more than once, and knowing what type of things can and cannot happen.

    If you learn from situations (and don't automatically assume that you do) then you gain a little wisdom.

    The more situations you learn from, the wiser you become.

    There is no one moment when you can say "now I am wise", to the contrary, a wise person would know never to say that.

    It takes time, experience, intelligence, mistakes, corrections and more time to become wise.

  19. Older, certainly. You spend the first part of your life just gaining knowledge. The rest of it, using it and, as you get older, you get better at it until you are said to have gained wisdom.

  20. no, but it helps.  and i think it's rare when a young person is really "wise", smart maybe, quick witted, but rarely wise.

  21. No, because you can be wise beyond your years.

  22. wisdom is the application of knowledge

    there's no age requirement.

  23. no you don't

    being wise is being mature and having lots of experience

    you don't have to be 80 yrs old to have that

  24. No, and you don't have to be young to be ignorant, either.

    The difference isn't how many years you've lived, but how you've lived them.
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