Tag: Wisdom

• Say not ‘I have found the truth’, but rather ‘I have found a truth’.

  When I was young, I knew everything -and yet nothing, really. Things change; there is no fixed star, and when I look up with autumned eyes, even the world looks different now. But is it really? Is reality so different now from when I was a child, or does an invisible shroud already cloud my […]

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  March 16, 2022

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  Aeon.co, Cornell University, Elders, experience, Karl Pillemer, purpose, Wisdom, youth

• You yourself shall keep the key of it

  There are times when I wonder if my father straddled two worlds. He was a learned man, and his knowledge was no doubt hard-earned through books and teachers, but I discovered as a child that there was more to his knowledge than what he had stored in his head. “Answers are lying around everywhere, G,” […]

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  February 9, 2022

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  agency, answers, Australia, Australian Aborigines, culture, environment, Flinders University, forests, knowledge, Psyche.co, questions, Stephen Muecke, trails, walks, Wisdom

• What is the Merit of Originality?

  ‘I am not young enough to know everything,’ as Oscar Wilde once said, and maybe the rest of us aren’t either. It is often an unquestioned assumption that New trumps Old, that innovation usually leads to improvement, and that by standing on the shoulders of giants, the view is necessarily better. Clearer. But there is […]

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  May 16, 2018

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  Aurum Institute Johannesburg South Africa, Erica Lessem, Gavin Churchyard, GeneXpert, global health care, health care, metaphor, Myth, myth of Baucis and Philemon, national empathy, Nature Journal, New vs Old, Oscar Wilde, South Africa, TB, technology, the Treatment Action Group, Tuberculosis, WHO, Wisdom, World Health Organization

• Fairness Which Strikes the Eye

  Sometimes it seems we cannot help ourselves –the pull of the tide is just too strong to resist. And sometimes an argument, when considered too quickly, too uncritically, captures us with its ostensibly intuitive wisdom. We have no need to question it. No need to probe the basis of its logic. The rhetoricians of old […]

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  November 22, 2017

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  argument, Aristotle, BBC Future, Capitalism, Christina Starmans, equality, ethos, fairness, Harry G Frankfurt, income disparity, inequality, King Lear, logic, logos, Mark Sheskin, Nature Human Behaviour, Occupy Movement, On Inequality, pathos, persuasion, Princeton University, rhetoric, Shakespeare, wealth, wealth inequality, Wisdom, Yale University

• Recycling the Old

  For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… Really? It made sense when I was young, I suppose -when all of Time was ahead. When I needed to think there was some order to things. That past and future meant old and new. But as the years slip past, I […]

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  July 30, 2015

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  BBC news, bisphosphonates, bone metastases, breast cancer, Ecclesiastes, glitazone, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lancet, new, old, Parkinson’s disease, Phoenix, recycling, Talmud, Wisdom, wisdom of elders

• The Wisdom of Experience

  Sometimes, I feel like a fake. I suppose the ability to see oneself from various angles is a gift of age, but I rather enjoyed myself more when I was sure of who I was –or at least didn’t trouble myself with the question. And yet, to dig for the core is to taste the […]

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  May 30, 2014

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  Age, alternative therapies, doctors, experience, listening, menopause, menopause treatments, Wisdom