This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

Last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost which commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The feast reminds us that God is ever-present in our lives, hopefully informing and inspiring our actions. This ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, is author of The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50, from which this essay is adapted. President Donald Trump has been praised ...

In psychology, there is a debate about various types of intelligence. Some believe people may be intelligent in specific ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. Popular belief suggests we gain wisdom through life ...

Throughout history, there have been countless iconic figures who are notorious for possessing extraordinary wisdom. But what exactly is “wisdom”? Although ...

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What is wisdom? One recent attempt to address this question, by Sharon Ryan, a philosopher at West Virginia University, begins with Socrates’s famous line, "The only true wisdom is knowing you know ...