Wisdom and Age

A rambling question or two:

Are babies wise? Does it make sense to say that one baby has more wisdom than another?

If not, what does that suggest about wisdom?

or consider this:

I think it was Chief Sumhalla who told a white man who asked him about the wisdom he claimed for the Indians that “Wisdom comes in dreams.” He added that “Much also may be learned by watching a dreamer at night or in dancing all night.” What do you make of that? How does that compare with what Nils Rauhut says about the philosophical activities in the Western tradition?

Is rationality the key to wisdom? Or is intuition also a source of real knowledge?

(The old head vs. heart debate. In Christendom, a simalar argument was "Mary vs. Martha": when Jesus visited, one was the active cook while the other was the listener to the words of Jesus. They came to re present the dichotomy of the via activa (the active, involved life) and the via contempliva (the withdrawn, thoughtful life), the doing good in the world vs. the going to a monastery or convent. The debate raged for centuries. (The communist picked it up–they massacred the priests and nuns in Tibet for being “parasites” who did not contribute to society but merely meditated all day while eating the gifts from the farmers, whom the communists regarded as dupes.)

Aristotle thought the life of contemplation the best possible life.

Babies are learners for sure, but do they contemplate? If not, can they be wise?