

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
He is a wise man who has his afterthoughts first.
The wisdom of the crowds is real - At a county fair where individuals guess the weight of an ox, every individual is wrong but the collective average, however, somehow becomes astonishing close

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Wisdom is a process which, just as for a carpenter who does not become one by desiring so, one who desires wisdom has 'to learn certain things'.
Wisdom is concerned with seeking how to make us die well. Science is concerned with seeking the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable.