You may know wisdom when you see it, but scientists have yet to come of with a concise definition. A new survey of 30 people who study wisdom reveals wisdom has features that distinguish it from other ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers asked 21 hospice patients, ages 58 to 97 and in the last six months of their lives, to describe the core characteristics of wisdom and whether their terminal illnesses had changed or ...

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 ...

The top-level managers who brought down companies such as Enron, Global Crossing, and WorldCom were, for the most part, nothing if they were not smart and well-educated. Yet one cannot help feeling ...

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 ...