Wisdom - Earned Through Study
Wisdom comes through dedicated study, experience, and communion with the Otherworld.
Celtic druids trained for up to twenty years to master their wisdom. This included poetry, law, history, divination, and ritual. True wisdom was earned through discipline, experience, and opening oneself to inspiration from the Otherworld.
Twenty years the student learns before the first word of wisdom is earned.
The long druidic training shows Celtic valuation of comprehensive wisdom.
Julius Caesar
Written about in
- What Celtic tradition says about knowing yourself
The other route was slow. Druidic training is reported to have run up to twenty years across poetry, law, history and ritual. Worth noting that the source for this is Caesar, an outsider writing about people he was at war with.