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You may bang soundness when you see it , but scientist have yet to come of with a concise definition .
A new view of 30 citizenry who study wisdom reveals wiseness has feature that signalize it from other similar traits , such as intelligence and spirituality .
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" There are several majordefinitions of wisdom , but no individual definition that is all - inclusive and embraces every important vista of wisdom , " said study researcher Dilip V. Jeste , professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of California , San Diego .
" Intelligenceand spirituality share features with wisdom , but they are not the same matter , " Jeste explained . " One can be well-informed , yet lack practical knowledge . spiritualty is often tie in with eld , like wisdom , but most research worker tend to define wisdom in worldly terms , not spiritual . "
Most of the expert agreed wisdom could be characterized as follows :
Participating experts rank the relevance and importance of six statements on a scurf from 1 ( emphatically not ) to 9 ( definitely so ) with regard to the concepts of wiseness , intelligence activity and church property ; for representative " the construct can be applied to human beings . "
The expert were then ask to rate the grandness of 47 components , such asaltruism , practical life acquirement , common sense of wit , realism , willingness to forgive others and self - esteem , to the concepts of wisdom , news and spirituality .
" One survey , of class , can not in full and completely define wisdom , " Jeste said . " The value here is that there was considerable arrangement among experts that wisdom is indeed a distinct entity with a number of characteristic character . The data from our enquiry should help in designing future empirical subject field on wiseness . "
The results are published online in the June issue of the journal Gerontologist .
