(255) On Wisdom

I ask not to be granted wisdom, but only not to forever lose whatever wisdom I may amass in the wild, fallow thicket of human communication. Wisdom, in its nature, is not granted anyway, but carefully attained osmotically by the mind sieving practical sense from the barrage of canonical nonsense that systematically batters it - in much the same way that the mind makes sense of the physical senses. If all of this information was amassed in the mind, it would be necessary to our sanity for the proverbial dam to break or for our beliefs to possess a great degree of plasticity and our lives to contain very little stress. True wisdom is, then, found in the knowledge that how much one knows is not nearly as important as how one knows it, and found in knowing when to learn what is needed.