Question

How do I write an essay on Charles Dicken's quote : There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart ? Please explain.

Answer 1

“There is a Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart “

                                                                                         - Charles Dickens

Imagine that you had been walking in a forest and had no idea of where to go. Suddenly you decided to explore things and learn more about the nature. As you traveled you had met  two different personalities. The first person seemed to be a hard worker and was doing his  job just for himself and his family. He was quite content with what he earned and lived  happily. The second was a rich person who had arrived to the forest for mining some  precious metals. He was also sad that he had only mined little amount of precious stones.

Now if we try to look into the above situation we seemingly get a doubt on deciding whom  to be a wiser person. The man who earned only for him or the rich who had more but felt  bad for earning less. This is the place where wisdom is required.

Wisdom is the skill developed by a person which enables him to judge the person by his  visible qualities expressed. It is achieved only out of sheer hard work, faith, dedication and  utmost concentration along with some experience. Everyone in this world are not wise and  are said to possess wisdom. People who use their intellect for moral and truthful purposes  are considered to be wise and people with wisdom.

In many cases, people often confuse between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is nothing  but the know - how of things while wisdom is the knowledge of knowing where to apply the  learnt knowledge. From this one can infer that wisdom is only associated with mind and not  with anything else. But one must know that Wisdom is not selective to head but also for  heart as well.

Wisdom of Head can be considered as the minimum level of complicated intelligence needed  for dealing even the toughest situation in a proper way also favoring yourself into the  succeeding side. Wisdom of heart refers to the dealing of situation in such a way that it  doesn’t guarantee success for your side, but it makes you inspirational to others.

Consider the following example to understand the words of Dickens even better.

Wisdom of Heart:

Gandhiji was humiliated a large number of times in various places since he was a black by  birth. But he, filled with confidence, had withstood the humiliations he faced and emerged as  the greatest leader through his famous experiment called Ahimsa towards Mankind. This is  the place where his Wisdom of heart played a role. Even though he suppressed himself from  humiliating, he had made the Britishers get humiliated by themselves. Thereby he gained  success as well as he emerged as an inspiration to the whole nation.

Wisdom of Mind:

A national level football team when competing with a state team can clearly emerge as  winner with no doubt. But if the coach and the captain of the State team use their wisdom at  the right moment and direction, they can emerge as the winner as well. This technique used  for emerging as the winner is associated with the Wisdom of Mind.

In the Wisdom of Heart, we apply emotions to achieve success but on the other hand,  Wisdom of Mind, uses one’s intellect to emerge as a successful person. Both the terms are  treated separately in common. Only a person with wisdom can know that both these forms  are essential for attaining wisdom.

Power of wisdom can be described in endless words. Wisdom can be considered to that of  the lamp of Aladdin which gives ideas and intellect excluding materialistic pleasures. Even  when god had emerged before Kalidasa, he demanded wisdom rather than speech. This tells  us the importance of wisdom and also enables to know that wisdom is the greatest thing  even required by the greatest personalities.

Thus, we can say that, Wisdom regardless of its types are required in all forms. Wisdom of  Head and Wisdom of Heart are not two different coins but two different faces of the same  coin.

By Kalpesh :)

Answer 2

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This line was first quoted by $\textbf{Charles Dickens}$ in his novel $\textbf{Hard Times}$ which shows how does the heart deals with the two entirely different wisdom i.e., wisdom of heart and head. He tries to focus on how the two things work.

These two are something which propose a total different conclusion about us or humans. Head and heart is something which can influence a decision.

Head is something which tends us to make our decision wisely based on the proper information and situation but heart is something which will make our decision in a way where it'll deal with heart. Our decision will be sentimental and moreover we understand the value of relationships, feelings and emotions.

Concluding the two, it's surely that it's hard for someone to deal with the two. Being a person with the thought of being spiritually capable to take decision, I don't think it's correct. Wisdom of heart is something which makes you internally happy with the it's statements dealing with love and affection.

While wisdom of head is something which will make you externally happy just because you know that you did right according to the mentality of others and proved your brain right. Not everytime one person needs to choose the heart but head is also equally important because everytime being sentimental won't make all good. You need to be equally well with the head too.

So better to say that a person with both the wisdoms is the one who succeeds knowing the perfect balance between the two.

Thanks !!..