An announcement and request from the Salt Lake Tribune:
Who is wise?
Maybe your mom, who seemed to know exactly what to say to teenage traumas. Perhaps your pastor, who inspired you to improve your life. Maybe even a president, who guided a nation through war or peace.
We want your thoughts about wisdom, a quality that stretches beyond knowledge to include insight, sound judgment and more.
But what exactly is wisdom? Who has it? And what makes a person wise?
Just e-mail your thoughts and nominate people you see as wise — both the famous and not-so-famous — to faith@sltrib.com.
March 9, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Wasn’t this settled eons ago? Wisdom is obtained by being early to bed and early to rise.
March 9, 2010 at 12:33 pm
One vote for Heavenly Mother.
March 9, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Wisdom is knowledge of good and evil. Humanity inherited it. Eating a certain piece of fruit makes us wise.
March 9, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I nominate Scott B.
March 9, 2010 at 3:22 pm
I accept.
Now, how do I send myself to the Trib?
March 9, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Lowell Bennion.
March 9, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Lowell Mather.
March 9, 2010 at 3:37 pm
I suggested that it requires a mix of idealism and pragmatism. Sadly, we haven’t had a president or Congress with this mix in a long time.
March 9, 2010 at 3:54 pm
No fair doing word plays on Lowell Bennion, the wisest of all wise Latter-Day Saints.
Now, if the Trib is looking for “wise asses”, then I have a much longer list to submit . . .
March 9, 2010 at 6:19 pm
People just need to _be_ wise and stop worrying about what it means. What can I say more?
March 9, 2010 at 6:21 pm
A lot, apparently.
March 9, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Wisdom is a word. It is also The Word.
And the Word was of Wisdom, and the Word was Wisdom.
March 9, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Of course, at one point grease was also the word, so I don’t know where that leaves us.
March 10, 2010 at 8:25 am
Dave K …. AWESOME!
March 10, 2010 at 9:31 am
Steve, it means the Word of Wisdom leaves us without groove or meaning, time, place, or motion.
March 10, 2010 at 9:33 am
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you out of situations in which you need it.
March 10, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Pres. Thomas Monson, Mother Teresa, Pamela Atkinson, who is the Salt Lake valley equivalent of Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi and many others have great wisdom. When we live in a spirit of loving kindness, compassion, service, generosity, humility, and mercy, we live with wisdom or enlightenment. Wisdom may be described as “the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight [http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wisdom].
Wisdom may be more a result how well we utilize our knowledge rather than how much knowledge we accumulate.