Quotes About Phronesis

judgment and improve project planning and leadership. Aristotle said that experience is "the fruit of years" and argued that it is the source of what he called "phronesis"—the "practical wisdom" that allows us to see what is good for people and to make it happen, which Aristotle saw as the highest "intellectual virtue."[1] Modern science suggests that he was quite right.

HIRE A MASTERBUILDER I sometimes say that this is my only heuristic because the masterbuilder—named after the skilled masons who built Europe's medieval cathedrals—possesses all the phronesis needed to make your project happen. You want someone with deep domain experience and a proven track record of success in whatever you're doing

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Phronesis is a beautiful virtue, practise it and you shall reap the rewards…