Wisdom Wise Wit

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~ WISE    implies 
~ WISDOM  id+ | FORESIGHT | 
~ WIT     start see> VEDA 
^u        id+ | SENSE  LUCIDITY  MIND  REASON | 
          id+ | VISION or from VIDE leading to 
          id+ | see> WITCH WITCHCRAFT and see> VICTIM | 
          id+ | INTELLIGENCE | 
          id+ | CAPACITY TO PUT TOGETHER | 
          id+ | ILLUMINATED or LUCID |  
          id+ | PURE ERUDITION | 
          id+ | CAPACITY TO FORM AN IDEA or 
                opp of IDIOT or "NO IDEA" |  
          id+ | PROFITABLE KNOWLEDGE |   sug> PHILOSOPHY
          id+ | POSSESSION OF VIRTUES |  see> PRINCIPLE 
  note points to see> VIDE for VISION 
  maxim> ONLY THOSE WITH WISDOM CAN BENEFIT FROM KNOWLEDGE 
  lit+ " WISDOM COMETH BY SUFFERING "  
         attr to AESCHYLUS [#]  note variant  
  maxim> | ADVERSITY IS THE MOTHER OF WISDOM | 
  lit+ " ... WHEN AN OLD PERSON DIES
         IT IS LIKE A LIBRARY BURNING " 
         attr to Alex HALEY [#]
  lit+ " THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD IS
         FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD "  
         from Corinthians 
  lit+ | THE TRULY WISE WILL GAZE INWARDLY
         AVOID JUDGING  AND  CHOOSE SILENCE " 
         attr to PIRRON or PYRRHUS [#] 
         King of Epirus 360?-270? BC 
  maxim> | THE WISE MAN NEVER LIES | 
           a Jesuit proverb  
  vern> "I SEE" for I UNDERSTAND or opposite of 
        "I HAVE NO IDEA " as if "I AM AN IDIOT " 
  maxim> | WIT IS EDUCATED INSOLENCE |
           attr to ARISTOTLE [#] 384-322 BC  
  maxim> | TO BE BRIEF AND TO THE POINT | 
  maxim> | WITH implies an ability thus make WHIT |  
  sug> fr VITESSE = SPEEDY PACE 
  lit+ " TIME RIPENS ALL THINGS
         NO MAN IS BORN WISE "  
         attr to Miguel de CERVANTES [#]
  lit+   " BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT " 
           in Hamlet by W SHAKESPEARE [#] 
  note   WISDOM and WIT are ACTIVE ATTRIBUTES 
  eng    WIT     = HUMOR SPIRIT MIND and SENSE 
  sc>    WHIT      THE SMALLEST CONCEIVABLE PART or 
                   PARTICLE as in POINT 
  fr     VITESSE = implies WIT and means SPEEDY as in 
  eng    VELOCITY  or CELERITY or HIGH PACE 
  skrt   VIDYA     KNOWLEDGE           sug> CONVERT 
         VEDA      A WAY or KNOWLEDGE  sug> CONVERSE 
  see>   VEGA      A WAY 
  ukr    VEDY      GUIDE
  eng    VISION    PERCEPTION  FORESIGHT 
  lat    VIDE      TO HAVE VISION or be 
  eng    VERSED    KNOWING             sug> VERSION 
  sp     VERSO     POETRY or VERSES     sug> STAND STANZA 
  lat    VIDERE    VISION  SEE         sug> SEEING
         VISUM     same                sug> VISA
         VIDE      same                sug> OVERT 
  eng    WHIT      or 
         WIGHT     CREATURE or MAN or  
                   A THING WITH WIT  
  ukr    VIST      CONSCIENCE 
  rus    VIESCH    THING 
  ukr    VIDAIE    KNOWS or             sug> UNDERSTAND  
                   CAN SEE              sug> VISUAL 
  sp     VISTA     VISION               sug> VISIBLE 
       OSVITA      EDUCATION            sug> ENLIGHTENED           
  sp     VIDA      LIVE LIFE            sug> VITALITY
  ukr   SVITLO     LIGHT                sug> TRANSPARENT 
        SVIDOMO    CONSCIOUS            sug> SCIENCE  ALIVE
        SVIT       UNIVERSE  WORLD      sug> GLOBAL
         VIDIT     TO SEE               sug> UNDERSTAND
         VITAI     GREET                see> VITAL
  sp     VISION    SIGHT  VISTA         sug> VIEW   
  eng    LUCID     RATIONAL SENSIBLE    sug> LOGICAL 
                   CLEVER   ABLE        sug> CAPABLE 
  ukr    ROZUM     WISDOM or WIT        sug> SENSE 
         RAZOM     TOGETHER             sug> UNISON 
         ROZUMITY  TO UNDERSTAND or     sug> REALIZE 
                   TO PUT TOGETHER or   sug> JOIN 
                   TO GATHER into       sug> UNIFY 
                   "I SEE" or           sug> LINK 
                   "PAINT A PICTURE"    sug> REALIZE
        SABIO      WISE                 sug> KNOW
        SABER      KNOWLEDGE            sug> SENSE
  gr   EIDOS      FORM leads to         sug> ADVISE
  eng  IDOL       relates to GOD and GOOD     
       IDOLATRY   RESPECT for HEROIC FIGURES 
       IDEALISM   RESPECT for MODELS of PERFECTION      
  ply> | VISION VERSES WISE | as in   
  lit+ " TO KNOW CHAPTER AND VERSE " 
  note  WISDOM implies 
        IDEAS OF GOOD and   sug> PHILOSOPHY
  biol> from Psychology 
        A SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE links with 
        a SUPERIOR HUMOR plus WITH  JEST
  hx> THE SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE WERE
      PERIANDER [#] OF CORINTH
  PITTACUS [#] OF MITYLENE
  THALES [#] OF MILETUS
  SOLON [#]
  BIAS [#] OF PRIENE
  CHILO [#] OF SPARTA AND
  CLEOBULUS [#] OF LINDUS
  it seems that GREEKS SHOWED 
  A GREATER WIT THAN ROMANS 
  WHO WORSHIPED WAR or STRIFE    sug> MARS 
  or its symbols as per          sug> MARCH 
  PARADES  EAGLE  VICTORY etc    sug> MARTIAL
  GREEKS VIEWED WAR              sug> BATTLE
  AS A SOURCE OF MISERY          sug> INFLICT 
  NONETHELESS GREEK HISTORY      sug> CONFLICT
  IS A CHRONOLOGY OF             sug> DIARY 
  CHRONIC INTESTINAL STRIFE      sug> JEJUNUM 
  cont> see> WITCH          also see> VITIM