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So in my 12 years of wisdom, I zip my pants down, I walk out into the room, and lo and behold to me, while I was in the room with Sheila, Johnny was back at the window calling guys up.
And in particular, the virtue that we need most of all is the virtue that Aristotle called "practical wisdom."
Practical wisdom is the moral will to do the right thing and the moral skill to figure out what the right thing is.
Together they comprise practical wisdom, which Aristotle thought was the master virtue.
So that is an example, both of wisdom in practice and the subversion of wisdom by rules that are meant, of course, to make things better.
Aristotle thought that practical wisdom was the key to happiness, and he was right.
Well, to love well and to work well, you need wisdom.
Rules and incentives are no substitutes for wisdom.
Indeed, we argue, there is no substitute for wisdom.
And so practical wisdom does not require heroic acts of self-sacrifice on the part of practitioners.
People who are just learning about this stuff: biomimicry means respecting the wisdom of all species.
But biomimicry means respecting the wisdom of all species.
Well, that idea of biomimicry, respecting the wisdom of all species, combined with the idea of democracy and social justice, respecting the wisdom and the worth of all people, would give us a different society.
But again and again, lived compassion brings us back to the wisdom of tenderness.
Now our traditions contain vast wisdom about this, and we need them to mine it for us now.
And more than a decade later, when I talk to NGO fellows, whether in Trenton, New Jersey or the office of the White House, and we talk about Ingrid, they all say that they're trying to integrate her wisdom and her spirit and really build on the unfulfilled work of her life's mission.
We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.
People will forget their wisdom.
The wisdom of these elders is not a mere collection of stories about old people in some remote spot.
We live in a society bloated with data, yet starved for wisdom.
And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.
And so reading and educating your emotions is one of the central activities of wisdom.
The Greeks say we suffer our way to wisdom.
We can talk about the distant past, plan for the distant future, discuss ideas with each other, so that the ideas can grow from the accumulated wisdom of a group.
My first spoken-word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.
And as I grew up, I heard so much knowledge and so many insights and so much wisdom come out around this table, I began to call it the wisdom table.
And I'd like to think of it as a 21st century wisdom table, really.
Their collective wisdom is much greater than mine, and I admit it to them openly.
It came about spontaneously through their collective wisdom.
And most profoundly of all, will we ever be able to develop the wisdom, and to inherit the wisdom, that we'll need to make these choices wisely?
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