Babies – the second cutest thing on the internet after dogs and cats. Their whimsical facial expressions, their cute outfits, their squishy round faces – what's not to love? They're tiny versions of people, but a hundred times cuter than any adult.
Sometimes parents can capture their little ones making silly faces or looking weirder than usual. This list is about babies who sort of look more mature than they really are. Like they have more wisdom than they should have. Maybe a little wrinkly on the face, maybe a little too worried for not even being 1 year old. But they’re still rocking it in the cutest way possible.
#1 I Thought For Sure My Kid's First Word Would Be "Inconceivable"
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#2 My Son Is Only 5 Days Old And Already Tired Of Everything
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#3 My Grandma Has Been A Grandma Since Birth
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We've dedicated this list to babies who look more like grandpas and grandmas than newborn children. Some of them also have that look in their eye like they know more about life than we do. We tend to associate old age with wisdom, but why is that?
What is wisdom, after all? Let's dive into the theoretical. Philosophers have five approaches to understanding wisdom: epistemic humility, epistemic accuracy, wisdom as knowledge, hybrid theory and wisdom as rationality.
#4 My Brother's Baby Picture Looks Like Kevin From The Office
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#5 This Is My Fiancé's Friend's Son
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#6 This Baby Girl Looks So Old
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The famous quote from Socrates "The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing" can be the basis for epistemic humility. It goes like this: I am wise if I believe I am not wise. This theory revolves around a person's perception of being wise.
Philosophers call this a failed theory because a wise person should be confident in their wisdom. If a person is truly wise, they should know it and share their wisdom with others.
#7 Simon Pegg's Range As An Actor Is Seriously Underrated
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#8 This Is The Only Baby Picture I Have
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#9 He's Fed Up With All The Dad Jokes
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The second part of epistemic humility is about knowledge. It's the view that those who are arrogant and overly confident in their knowledge of the world have the least wisdom. In order to be wise, you have to believe you know nothing. But philosophers reject this one too for the same reasons the first one fails.
Humility theories do provide the characteristics of a wise person. They should be confident in their wisdom, but not too arrogant. They need the ability to reflect on their faults and admit that sometimes there might be uncertainties in life.
#10 My Wife Gave Birth To Steve Buscemi
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#11 My Baby Looks So Old
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#12 I Came Across Some Old Photos Of A Weird Looking Baby Today At My Parent's House. Found Out It's Me At 4 Months. Thank God They Captured My Beauty Before I Grew Out Of It
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The second theory of wisdom is epistemic accuracy. That's when a person is aware of what he knows and what he does not know. However, because it is yet again based on the person's perception, it's too subjective to be a solid theory. I can believe I know what a thing is, but I can be wrong in my belief.
#13 My Bestie Back When She Was A Tiny Granddaddy
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#14 My Nephew Joseph Is Concocting His Diabolical Plan
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#15 This Baby Looks Like He Has A Mortgage
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A revision of the epistemic accuracy theory claims that if a person can justify their beliefs, then their wisdom is valid. You can believe you have knowledge about a thing, but if you can't provide the evidence for it – sorry, you're not that wise. There is a fault in this theory too: what if a person is right, but can't provide the argument for their claim?
#16 The Forehead And Hairline Of A Century Old Man
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#17 When I Was Born, I Looked Like An 87-Year-Old Man
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#18 Everyone Knows Not To Bother Her During Tax Season
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Philosophers still have arguments against accuracy theories. A person is not wise even if they know what knowledge they have and lack. Even if they can provide evidence for what they know. They can then boast of knowing very few things or things that have very little importance. That's why philosophers say it's not wisdom.
#19 My Favorite Old Baby Turned 365 Days Today
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#20 Me At 5 Months Old Looking Like A Sailor
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#21 My One-Month-Old Baby On His Way To The Nursing Home
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The third theory of wisdom is the theory of knowledge. A person is wise because he knows a lot of things, both theoretical and practical. The things that fall into the category of theoretical knowledge can be music, literature, art, etc. And the practical – the knowledge of how to live well.
#22 My Baby
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#23 Old Baby Drinking A Negroni
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#24 My Son Is Welcoming You To The Company
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Hybrid theory puts all of the aforementioned ideas together. A wise person should have academic knowledge, know how to live well and be successful in it, and not have unjustified beliefs. Philosopher Dennis Whitcomb criticizes this theory, saying that the "good life" aspect is not necessary.
"If I ran across such a person, I would take his advice to heart, wish him a return to health, and leave the continuing search for sages to his less grateful advisees. And I would think he was wise despite his depression-induced failure to value or desire the good life. So I think that wisdom does not require valuing or desiring the good life."
#25 When Someone Says You Look Like A 60-Year-Old Baby
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#26 Are You Talking To Me?
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#27 My Second-Born Looking Like She Forgot To Put In Her Teeth
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Philosopher Sharon Ryan proposes a different and final theory of wisdom. She bases the previous conditions – having epistemically justified beliefs, practical and theoretical knowledge – on being rational.
Instead of living a good life, a wise person strives to live rationally. "A wise person is a person who is rational and who is deeply committed to increasing his or her level of rationality," the philosopher writes.
#28 My Daughter Looks Like Clemenza From The Godfather
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#29 My Best Friend's Son Always Looks Like He's Wondering If Retirement Can Come Any Faster
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#30 He Needs Help Getting Over To Yell At The Kids On His Lawn
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Professor of psychology Noam Shpancer says that old age does not directly correlate with wisdom. "The question to ask when it comes to wisdom is not how much time you've had, but what you chose to do with your time," he writes.
So the babies in this list might have had some serious life experiences to look this wise. We could all learn from them – they've had so little time, but look like they have seen so much already.
#31 Here's Me 32 Years Ago Looking Like A Cantankerous Octogenarian
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#32 Get Off My Lawn
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#33 "When I Was Your Age, I Had To Walk Through Miles Of Knee-Deep Snow In Order To Be Born"
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#34 Was Issued An AARP Card With His Birth Certificate
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#35 I Do Not Approve Of This, Lady
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#36 My 1-Month-Old Son Looks Like A 45-Year-Old Uncle Dave After A Few Beers
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#37 My Child Looks Like He's 600 Months Old
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#38 This Baby Looks Like Miggy Almiron In About 40 Years. Oldest Looking Newborn I've Seen In My Life
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#39 Grumpy Old Man
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#40 Little Girl Swears Vengeance On All That Have Wronged Her. Complete With Godfather-Style Pet
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#41 I Caught My Son At His Absolute Worst. Looks Like He's Been Working The Night Shifts For 25 Years
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#42 Years Before, My Mother Gave Me A Mullet, Bowl Cut, And Then This Lovely Combover. I Looked Like A Lady Asking About Insurance
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#43 This Old-Looking Baby
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#44 These Will Forever Be My Favorite Pictures Of My Baby Girl
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#45 This Is My Son Giving Me Advice The Day He Was Born
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#46 She's Adorable But Fed Up With Everything
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#47 Did I Get A Reincarnated Old Nun?
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#48 He's So Wrinkly That I Would Trust Him With My Taxes
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#49 My Baby Boy Or Middle-Aged Man?
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#50 Little Al Capone
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