No One Can Lose Truth And Wisdom Against The Will

“No one can lose truth and wisdom against his will.” —St. Augustine On Free Choice of the Will, Book II, Ch. 14. Everyone can hold truth and wisdom just by their own will. Truth is the meaning of reality, and truth takes form as an understanding. The understanding of truth provides the principles for deciding what is, and is not, knowledge. Wisdom is the combination of knowledge and experiences into perceptions that extend one’s understanding of reality. Knowledge is not equivalent to wisdom. Wisdom and truth cannot be taught. It cannot be found on the Internet. It can only be gained through a personal quest to obtain it. Therefore, to want the truth and to have wisdom, one must personally want to acquire it. Without one willing to want to have it, one cannot hold truth and wisdom. One is responsible for one’s actions, so one willing aim for truth and

Free will is the capacity to choose a course of action as a means of satisfying one desires. No one can make others to aim for wisdom and reality; it is in human nature to willing to want to do understanding a specific aspect in life. Human are taught to decide what they want in life, so understanding the meaning of reality, it is a choice not a requirement of life. Everybody holds truth and wisdom by their own will. People choose to stop being ignorant and understand the meaning of life; they are never forced to aim for these aspects of life. No one else can control one minds; one is in charge of the mind. People cannot go inside one minds and start manipulating it. It is up to people to decide what to believe. One was given free will to choose on what to accept as true. Therefore, holding onto truth and wisdom is a choice that one makes freely without any influences. One is the one who decide to start searching for answers in life and hold to those answers, so no one else can come later and try to manipulate one