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Wisdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Larry Culliford
Larry Culliford*
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Department of Psychiatry, Epsom District Hospital, Epsom, Surrey
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The College motto is ‘Let Wisdom Guide’: but what is wisdom?

Wisdom is a recognizable attribute of human beings, reflected in their thoughts, words and actions, derived through intuition and through individual contemplation of ideas, knowledge and experience of all kinds. The definition is conventional, and says something. But what is wisdom?

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 8 , Issue 10 , October 1984 , pp. 186 - 187
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