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Re: What truths would a wise person pursue?
Wisdom is a simplified set of understanding with extended practicality. A good analogy is duct tape, which is one thing with hundreds of uses. Knowledge is sort of the opposite using more complex orientations, but with more limited practical value. Its analogy is a spark plug socket specialized to that one task.
When confronted with the unknown, the duct tape of wisdom connects the unknown and sticks it down. Knowledge looks for a special tool. If the tool does not exist, it has to wait for someone to develop one for that application. With wisdom one doesn't have to wait but is more independent.
If one has a good memory and/or the ability to do research, this allows knowledge to meets the demands of new situations in life. Knowledge is like a huge truck full of tools, but one often has to sift through all the tool boxes to get that specialty wrench. Wisdom is a small portable tool belt one can carry around without memory overload.
The quest for that portable tool belt of wisdom begins by starting with the truck load of knowledge tools. One then needs to get out in the field and place themselves into as many situations of necessity and go for speed. One doesn't have the time to search for that one specialty but begins to see which tools have multiple uses. Now we are down to a smaller truck load. One keeps on doing this, until all the tools fit into a portable tool belt.
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