The Wisdom Page is a website dedicated to helping us better understand wisdom — that vitally important but poorly understood pinnacle of human functioning.

What is wisdom?           How can it be developed?

There are no short answers to those questions, but there are answers. Wisdom is multi-faceted. For milennia, students of wisdom and writers about it have associated wisdom with a number of positive human characteristics. Among them are the 48 that are displayed, one-by-one, over the "world at night" image above.

Since 1995 The Wisdom Page has been connecting wisdom-interested people with a wide range of wisdom-related resources. Over the years the website has expanded in content and grown in popularity. Now, each month, it delivers more than 20,000 documents, podcasts, and videos to visitors from more than 120 countries. (For more detail see the Wikipedia article titled The Wisdom Page.)

The Wisdom Page team includes writers, teachers, wisdom researchers, and people from all walks of life who see wisdom as central to personal and societal well being. All contribute without pay. We are presently entertaining outreach and expansion ideas that require two kinds of support:
     1. People willing to volunteer their time and skills, and
     2. Monetary donations.

If you'd like to explore the first, email info@wisdompage.com and tell us about yourself, your skills, and your interests. To make a donation, click the button at the right.

 
A wisdom-focused search engine that searches this site and beyond.

   Including the new Wisdom Page Introductory Video

here or at iTunes

wisdom-related videos

Copthorne Macdonald's books in eBook format    Download free, screen-readable, eBook editions of Matters of Consequence (concerning personal and societal wisdom in the 21st century), Getting a Life (about practical, everyday-life wisdom), and Toward Wisdom (concerning big-picture, existential wisdom).

More free e-books in the Free e-Books and e-Periodicals section of Wisdom Books & Reviews

MIND FLIGHT: Wisdom, Enlightenment, and the Journey of Life is an exciting, insightful, and wide-ranging personal quest book by Thomas Lombardo and Jeanne Belisle Lombardo. Read the first few chapters here.

What are the most effective ways to develop wisdom? What practices work? Which ones are a waste of time? What attitudes, ways of being, and ways of seeing are important to cultivate? And how do we go about doing that? Please share your experience with the rest of us.

Bruce Lloyd wants your thoughts on a "Wise Society Index" He'd like to know "what could go into such an index? What could we try to measure? And how could it actually be measured?" Please share your thoughts and ideas.