Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” This is easily understood as true, for knowledge is quickly acquired with effort, but wisdom requires experience, the best of all ...

Let’s distinguish wisdom from knowledge in general. It is more than just practical information about how the world is, how to maintain things like our health or our prosperity. Wisdom refers to the ...

German-Swiss writer Hermann Hesse explored the difference between knowledge and wisdom. He believed knowledge can be taught, ...

Wisdom snuck up on me. I wasn’t looking for it. It didn’t announce itself. And, quite frankly, I thought for a long time that knowledge and wisdom were twins. I’ve come to learn they’re cousins. In ...

I recently wondered what Socrates would say if he transcended centuries and, for a final time, had a chance to question the world. I wondered, if he stood in the Pit of our campus, what self-effacing ...

When the ordinary, Bible-believing Christian hears the radically unorthodox pronouncements of some clergymen, he is perplexed. He finds it hard to understand how men whose ordination vows bind them to ...

We are a society of seven billion human beings all with the ability to almost instantly connect. In seconds, we can send a text message or start a video chat with a friend on the other side of the ...

For years I labored under the illusion that communicating knowledge about cannabis, or a wide variety of other drugs and alcohol, was the keystone for promoting recovery. I believed education was the ...