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Wisdom is one of the pillars of the typical mental performance of the individual, which can be developed by practicing different types of dialogical and dialectical thinking, critical and creative thinking and contemplative exercises, and wisdom expresses the knowledge that an individual acquires due to experiences and practices, and this scientific paper aims to verify the psychometric properties to measure the characteristic of wisdom in a large segment in the age range within the Saudi society. The sample size was 366 participants of both genders and ages between 18 and 75 years, between students, employees, and nonemployees. The findings resulted in the scale expressions (26 item) having an excellent degree of internal consistency (a = 0.77), a high correlation between the expressions of each dimension and the same dimension, and a high correlation also between the five-dimensional scores of the total degree of the scale. These results also confirm the need to re-apply the scale to larger samples to verify the reliability of the factor analysis. In light of these available psychometric properties, the scale can be used with caution, with the need for further verification. (Published Abstract)