Wisdom in ancient China were two different concepts. As said in "Zhuangzi: The Theory of Things": "The great knowledge is idle, and the small knowledge is intermittent." "Wisdom is equivalent to the "little knowledge" mentioned here, that is, what we usually call smart, "Dream of Red Mansions" said that Wang Xifeng "was too clever to calculate the organs, but he mistook Qingqing's life." This is what we often say, "being smart is being mistaken by being smart." And wisdom is the "great knowledge" mentioned here, Lao Tzu emphasized that "great wisdom is foolish", Buddhism advocates "precept wisdom", that is, "people have self-knowledge" of the Ming, so Socrates said: "The so-called wisdom refers to the kind of wisdom that knows that you have no wisdom." ”
Zhuangzi believes that we can understand the world in three different realms, namely, "looking at it by the mundane, looking at it by looking at it with things, and looking at it with Taoism". From the subjective perspective of ordinary people, common sense opinions are drawn;And from the objective perspective of things, systematic knowledge is derived;In the Taoist view, it is from the perspective of the original universe, and its ability is wisdom, and the result is called wisdom.
Therefore, wisdom is a human ability, but it is not an innate instinct. It is a human insight, but it is not a simple opinion or knowledge. Wisdom is the insight into things and things that is sublimated from opinions and knowledge bases.