what is the difference of knowledge and wisdom?

Question

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Answer 1

The difference between knowledge and wisdom is the difference between two sorts of knowing: - knowing 'that' and knowing 'how'. Knowing 'that' is belief that is true and justified. Knowing how is skill. Wisdom is knowing how to make the best use of knowing that. It requires experience, and that's why the old are usually wiser than the young.

Answer 2

Knowledge is information of which a person, organization or other entity is aware. Knowledge is gained either by experience, learning and perception or through association and reasoning. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to use it for a specific purpose.

Wisdom is that state that enables us to look at a decision, a thought, or an act, in the same way across time, moods, and other factors.

In many ways, Wisdom is the ability to make correct judgments and decisions. Some think it is an intangible quality gained through experience. Yet others think it is a quality that even a child, otherwise immature, may possess independent of experience or complete knowledge. Whether or not something is wise is often determined in a pragmatic sense by its popularity, how long it has been around, and its ability to predict against future events. Wisdom is also accepted from cultural, philosophical and religious sources; in this sense, wisdom is often listed along side other virtues Insight, Knowledge, and Prudence. Some think of wisdom as foreseeing consequences and acting to maximize beneficial results.

Answer 3

Knowledge is reading and learning about a subject. Wisdom is putting that knowledge to good use. It's like college students. They spend 4 years studying and get a piece of paper saying they have completed the courses to achieve wisdom. If they don't put that knowledge to use, it don't come close to wisdom. It is right on the money as a waste of time.

Answer 4

Easy! Knowledge comes from a mix of theory and practice. For example, say you're slimming! You know not to eat those chocolate bars you like because your weight will shot up (Theory) You've been really conscious about your slimming and kept off them for a while, you have lost weight (Practice) You went on that diet for such a long time you got bored, went off your diet for a while and gained weight again (Still practice)

Wisdom is (If you're still slimming) That knowing from experience that you cannot keep such a strict diet for so long ... You'll make a point of having a day in the week when you'll reward youself with something that breaks down the monotomy and you won't go off your diet as you have in the past, because you'll be wiser!

In other words ... Wisdom is not only about your knowledge (Theory and practice) But recognizing that works/doesn't work because you have found that out for yourself.

Answer 5

That there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom is a fact.

Awareness that there is a difference is information.

Discerning what the difference is, that is knowledge.

Appreciating what the difference means, that is wisdom.

Expecting that truth is what blows you out of the water, that is foolish.

Answer 6

Hi,Knowledge is a wall of a building.But , wisdom is the foundation of a building.so, Where the wisdom resides there the knowledge gathers itself everything.That is wisdom converts the experience as knowledge power.Wisdom is the permanent residency for creating the power of knowledge.

Answer 7

Wisdom is innate, it is a natural ability to discern and make good decisions. Knowledge is having a store of information gathered through experience and exposure. One can have wisdom without knowing a lot. And one can have knowledge without being wise.

Answer 8

Knowledge is something you gain through learning, study, research and experience. Wisdom is what's within you, the sense or ability you use in any given situation, a wise attitude or a personal philosophy on life with which you abide.

Answer 9

lets define both the wise man and the knowledgeable one

A wise person is someone who can know the consequneces of things in the future. he can precieve the effects of a certain cause.

A knowledgable person has the correct view of relaity based on knowledge of things.

However if he can tact on his knowledge we woud not say he is wise, only knowledgable.

Knowledge is the the thing itself. Meaning knowledge is what let s you have a clear prespective but being wise, an internal phenimona resulting from a pure psyche is what a person does when he ACTS on that knowledge

Answer 10

Knowledge is knowing what to do in any situation. Wisdom is using what you know and applying it. You don't gain wisdom unless you use what you know. Otherwise it is a waste of knowledge.
Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom