The Bible tells us to seek after Wisdom. Knowledge is wonderful but Wisdom is better. I am wondering if we prize knowledge more than wisdom. Don't get me wrong I appreciate knowledge but I think some people are so smart and yet seem to have no wisdom.
2006-07-17 15:36:41 · 22 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely
2006-07-17 15:38:44 · answer #1 · answered by Who cares 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many intelligent people have no common sense, so yes there is a HUGE difference between knowledge and wisdom. Most people read the Bible and gain the knowledge but they do not see the wisdom, all they see is words.
2006-07-17 15:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by arvecar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is a beautiful gift because you learn it, where wisdom is when you live it. Wisdom shows, look at an older person and see the hairs of gray, that's wisdom. Look and listen to your teacher that's knowledge.
2006-07-17 15:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by ~Jessica~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wisdom is in and about application of that knowledge in a beneficial way to self and other. Knowledge is basically a group of data or infos that is collected to form a doctrine, principle of sort. Like a mathametical or scientific formula. But it takes wisdom to use that electricity or save it. Numbers and alphabets by itself are data. Formula, meaningful combination of numbers and alphabets is knowledge. wisdom is in how to make use of it for the good of humankind.
2006-07-17 15:43:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is knowing facts and wisdom is knowing what to do with those facts.
Basically if I am going to assemble a table and I have a instruction sheet. I have knowledge. If I know what it means when it says attach the leg to the tabletop with a wood screw, I have wisdom. KWIM?
2006-07-17 15:49:40 · answer #5 · answered by Domini Sumus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We gain Knowledge from the mistakes we make.
We gain Wisdom by learning from the mistakes of others.
With so many, screwing up, you shouldn't have to look far for the Wisdom.
2006-07-17 15:48:52 · answer #6 · answered by illuminostic_1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is something you can learn from books, studying, classes. Wisdom is gained from time and experience. It takes many years to gain true wisdom.
2006-07-17 15:45:46 · answer #7 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is things we know, learn. Wisdom is knowing how to use the things we know wisely. We may have knowledge that a hurricane is coming to our area. Having that knowledge doesn't do anything for us if we don't use our wisdom to take steps to prepare for the hurricane or evacuate.
Does that make sense? hehe
2006-07-17 15:42:23 · answer #8 · answered by KeeCee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe that having the knowledge is useless if you dont have the wisdom to use it.
2006-07-17 16:18:44 · answer #9 · answered by magz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible tells you to seek wisdom? The bible also tells you that if your slave wants to go free and you don't wish to free him, you should nail him by his ear to the wall of your town and, after a while, check back and see if he still wants to leave. The bible tells you that wearing two different fabrics together is an abomination to the lord. The bible tells you that bacon is an abomination to god. The bible tells you jacob - also called isreal, father of joseph - and his sons, slaughtered his daughter's husband, father, and every male member of their household, tho they knew his daughter loved her husband and he her, and even tho they entered into an agreement to accept the wedding. And the bible justifies this. So, you might want to branch out a bit in what you use to moral guidance. You know the parable about the woman being stoned whom Jesus saved by telling those without sin to cast the first stone? This story was added to the texts only 400 years after christ died. It is in no earlier versions, none. Whoever wrote those early gospels never included that story. Ever.
! (It's a good story, but it's not 'from god.' It's not even from 'the bible' if by that you mean that collection of christian writings that constantine assembled carefully, with emphasis on paul's legitamzing of roman sin,by saying no one is good enough to get into heaven, so it's all about 'being saved.' Which mightily angered James, the brother of Christ - and you can read about it in James.
you can jot down a piece of knowledge on your palm, to use to cheat o a test, say, but only wisdom would guide you to understand that using that jotted note to pass a test will not serve you in the long run.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, most people are pretty lacking in knowledge and don't prize knowledge, either. If you try to tell people the documented truth on bush's multiple lies on, oh let's just say Iraq, or Global Warming - they will stick their fingers in their ears and say la la la, or they will call you a communist or liberal or child devourer or somesuch.
What is largely prized in America is entertainment, comfort, and the re-inforcement of stereotypes and a limited, extremely limited, world view. Such a person, to leave the realm of politics, might pretend I, for example, value knowledge over wisdom because I want to point out the many contradictions, discrepencies, cross-outs, additions, and ommissions in today's standardized christian texts. But, to want to ignore facts and call it wisdom is to cross, perhaps, into madness, or, to soften it, self-delusion.
Wisdom is not separate from knowledge - it without doubt cannot be said to proceed from ignorance. Wisdom blends knowledge with experience, compassion, and hard-headedness.
2006-07-17 16:08:07 · answer #10 · answered by cassandra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wisdom is intelligent's
Knowledge is devine given by god of secret knowledge or future events to come.
There are people that know the truth the question is will people know the true word when they hear it.
Or just make a smug comment to mock it.
2006-07-17 15:53:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋