ANSWERS: 71
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Reading, studying.... and do more LISTENING than talking.
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Read voraciously, learn all you can and talk to people of every age, creed, culture and ethnic background, this will make you a more rounded human being.... as well as wise
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Well, if it is true that you learn from your mistakes, I must be the smartest man alive! Read, sure - but get out and DO!!! All my lasting lessons have come from trying something, not reading about it.
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I gain knowledge through study; and I gain wisdom from experience, both mine and other's.
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Spend more time watching and listening than you do acting and speaking and read constantly.
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Curiosity, love for learning, time, experience.
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Wisdom and knowledge are two VERY different animals. Knowledge can be obtained from study and experience, i.e. traditional learning methods like reading, lectures, practice, etc. Wisdom is much more subtle: it's really a matter of integrating your knowledge and experience into a creative synthesis which results in a deep understanding. The key ingredients for developing wisdom are first to have a decent base of experience, then to add a commitment to personal integrity and values, and finally soak your life in AWARENESS for a good long spell. Awareness allows the integration to occur. Without it, you can be smart, you can be well-read, you can be experienced... and still not become wise.
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By living, reading, and being open-minded!
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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! :D
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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! :D
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I learned by reading self help books - and living from day to day - Listening is the main key for me - Good Question
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By humility(wisdom) and open mindedness(Knowledge)
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Time, experience, communication with others and reading.
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experience and observing, thinking and interest...
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By trying new things.
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To gain knowledge one must live like a sponge. Soak up everything. To gain wisdom is to continue to live and apply the knowledge they've gained and learn from the mistakes.
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"Studying things, objects, devices, and machines will bring intelligence, studying other people, cultures, languages, and ways of life will bring knowledge, but only by studying yourself will you gain wisdom and enlightenment." Buddha.
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Travel.
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Read alot and never stop asking questions.
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Listen to what people have to say for periods of time without forming opinions in your mind. Be open minded. Then when you do decide you have picked up a few things and you decide you have something to say, ask questions on why people think this way or that way or how or why things work in a certain way.
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Through experience and time!
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Keep it simple and listen to the world all around you,There are lessons for us all and true wisdom is in how we perceive and act with that wisdom we gain.
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you gain wisdom through taking chances, challenging life and seeing beyond the truth we are mass marketed. the path too of excess leads to the tower of wisdom as a very wise man, william blake said. knowledge is something directly linked to wisdom one compliment the other yet reading and learning can also help one to become more knowledgable. yet, these are both "things" that we can not gain they come with time. the key always being an innate curiousity for life. and remember when you think you know everything is when you truley know nothing.
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by keeping an open mind.
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live. you can find wisdom and knowledge everywhere.
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By living and paying attention.
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By Hard Knocks and listening to your elders
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Hah, first by understanding the difference between wisdom and knowledge. And understanding that having knowledge alone is useless without being able to aply wisdom to knowledge.
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listen to experince read everything use it all wisely
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By living, loving
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Knowledge comes from senses and gathered by intellect. But Wisdom is gained from discrimination (Viveka in Sanskrit) of knowledge.
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reading and reading more. reading makes learning easier. knowledge comes from learning.wisdom comes from knowledge.
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Accepting everything positively, there are lessons to be learned from them. Understanding your experiences and recognizing the lessons within them opens your mind to a whole different perspective.
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Spend a weekend on Answerbag. I swear you guys have taught me a lot - even at this ripe ole age of mine!!!
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Live long and refuse to die, and pay attention to what's going on around you most of the time. Ponder it and see the beauty and flaw of human existence. Admit to nothing. Pay no attention to the ramblings of fools. Don't burden yourself with too much so that you become not free to move about. Enjoy simple pleasures and learn from them. Love people - everybody, because they are the only ones who might teach you what you need to know.
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Through experience and sight and feeling.
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By living life and paying attention.
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My answer may sound weird, but it works for me. Read the book of Proverbs in the Bible. After that, read Ecclesiastes (forgive my spelling). By reading these you will have a small grasp of wisdom and maybe able to harness it.
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Discussing idea
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you don't, wisdome and knowledge already lies within you. All the answers that you have lies within you. Wisdom and knowledge itself will come before you when you experience something different that you take as a benefit.
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Through contemplation and observation. You learn more by accepting correction than by imposing your believes.
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Silence, so that you can hear. Questions, so that you can seek that which you do not know.
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you either have it or you don't
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Always *listen* instead of speak!
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Shut up and listen
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I think knowledge is everywhere - especially in books. But wisdom, that's another story. I think you can only derive wisdom from experience.
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Searching and paying attention to details.
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By far the most important thing will be to open up your mind. Get beyond racism, sexism and whatever blocks you from seeing things as they are. If you can do that the world is yours to experience.
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simply just experience
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read read listen listen explore explore and read about exploring.
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If you accept that they are not the same, but come close, I would accept Dave the Magnificent's answer BUT would add a VERY important extra topic: sane SKEPTICISM. Gullibility is hardly a way to wisdom or valuable knowledge.
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Everything that increase your knowledge like: Books, experiences, asking, exploring, thinking and research.
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By living, by being a decent person, by learning from one's mistakes, but taking risks...
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I do this alot through reading and self-reflection.
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Some people have the ability to learn many things with ease, I would call that intelligence. Some people develop the ability to understand things, I would call that wisdom. I think there is a difference even though some aspects of both may be similar.
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You study, talk to people, read, study more, meditate on what you learned and then you acquire knowledge. Knowing how to use it and applying it in your life is gaining wisdom.
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Bible. Other readings, more Bible. Read some other stuff, than go back to the Bible. Read some anti-rederick, and then read some more of your Bible!
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By acting on unwise and ignorant impulses. And then learning from the results. Reading helps too.
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Live and learn ... not repeating past mistakes ... always keep my eyes and ears open and listen to people around me. Use other people knowledge to develop your my experience.
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By hurting and going through tough stuff. Pain teaches.
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through expeirience and learning from others :)
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The gaining of information is called education which translates to knowledge, the proper use of that information is called wisdom learn everything can about everything and try and use it wisely jsust be careful of the ducks, flocks and other herd animals they think they know things when they don't but can do you a lot of harm because there in the majority ... ~Nemo~
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Read for knowledge, experiment the knowledge to gain wisdom
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To listen, not just hear. To see, not just look. To feel, not just touch. To grieve, not just feel pain. To smile, not just laugh. To have empathy, not just understand. To know that no matter how much you know, there is always much more to learn.
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You live life to its fullest. There is no other way.
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The path of the prophets and spiritual teachers.
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through experience
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"True wisdom is knowing consistently that you know nothing" - Aristotle I hope I got that quote right. Anyway, virtually every way we have to perceive reality, or truth can be flawed. Even science is often proven wrong as it's replaced with new scientific theories. This would mean that all truth as we know it is based on faith, and so assuming that all truth is theory might be a safer option. It's entirely possible that our perception of reality and pure truth are very limited, if at all possible. By the way, that quote by Aristotle isn't unlike many thoughts by many other philosophers. It's just one thought though. I don't think any of the other answers are really wrong. I just wanted to add my little touch.
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You listen from the heart.
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It is a combination of formal book-learning, experience, keen observation, and generally keeping your ears open and your mouth shut.
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by not being afraid to fail at everything and anything you do in life and to take the knowledge you have gained from these experiences and applying them to your teachings.
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