[This material requires further dissectionbut seems to be a good starting place because drawn from the largest web-based encylopedia, Wikipedia

Wisdom it has been said is: ]

In its minimalist sense, wisdom is simply the ability and inclination to make choices that stand the sense of time. To say that a choice was wise implies that the action or inaction was strategically correct when judged by some set of values. In this sense, if a decision was, in retrospect, very smart, it was wise.

Another formulation along these lines is that wisdom is "Making the best use of available knowledge."

However, in a deeper sense, wisdom connotes an enlightened perspective and/or effective support for the long-term common good.

Insights and acts that are widely considered wise tend to

• arise from a broad (not narrow-minded) perspective,
• serve life in some broad or deep way (not just narrow self-interest)
• be grounded in but not limited by the past (experience, history, etc.) and the future (likely consequences)
• be informed by multiple forms of intelligence -- reason, intuition, heart, spirit, etc.

Because of its expanded perspective, wisdom is also often associated with humility, compassion, composure, humor, and a tolerance for dissonance, paradox, nuance, ambiguity, uncertainty, etc.

In its most universal and useful forms, wisdom tends to sense, work with and align people to the intrinsic wholeness and interconnectedness of life.

As with all decisions, a wise decision is made from incomplete information. But in a wise decision the chooser possesses a sense of the way that situations usually turn out and, in its deeper forms, a desire for the outcome to be broadly beneficial.

Perhaps this is oversimplifying but try this definition and see how well it fits:

Wisdom is demonstrated when actions taken are demonstrated (a)to be strategic, (b) to be good(i.e., to account for what are held to be worthy values and virtues) and (c) to be of such a scale that a diversity of systems and interests , even those with apparently insurmountable conflicts, are by some means nurtured in the process.

If we are interested in assigning the adjective wise to a person or to a decision then we are requiring ourselves not so much to judge outcomes as to judge the interaction of decider with situation, information sought for, as well as the decision-making and values that went into determining final action.

It seems to me to be foolish to judge unwise the person(s) responsible for the course of action that led to what turned out to be an unsatisfactory conclusion. Bad or limited information can undermine even the most intelligent and determined of human system problem solvers.

With these considerations in mind I can say that one way to slice the distinction between the search for the truth from the search for wisdom is the concern for breadth and depth and deep humanity of application. That concern must be part of a wisdom-quest. It may be part of a truth quest.