“**Each school has its own take on wisdom, but the same themes appear in all of them: The need to ask questions**. The need to study and reflect. The importance of intellectual humility. The power of experiences—most of all failure and mistakes—to open our eyes to truth and understanding. In this way, **wisdom is a sense of the big picture, the accumulation of experience and the ability to rise above the biases, the traps that catch lazier thinkers**.” ([Location 769](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07QY3CZ9L&location=769)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[mental-models]], [[humility]], [[listening]], [[not-speaking]], [[asking-questions]] **Source** -- [[202409180133 - B - Stillness is the Key]]