knowledge or wisdom and why?
2006-09-29 20:24:47 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
knowledge without wisdom: the most powerful and destructive combination... doing the wrong things right (on purpose!)
knowledge with wisdom: also powerful but quite often results in hesitance... doing the right things right
wisdom without knowledge: like doing the right things wrongly may be as destructive as the first
wisdom without knowledge: like doing the wrong things wrong may or may not be powerful
So the bottomline is wisdom determines the direction and knowledge determines the extent. They are different things.
2006-09-29 20:38:56 · answer #1 · answered by cannadoo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are asking which gives you the most power, then I would say knowledge.
Certain types of knowledge will always give you power (or an advantage of some kind) over others. For example, if I know somewhere that I can get my shopping for half the price everyone else pays, this gives me more money for other things.
Furthermore, when dictatorships want to stay in power, they suppress the spread of knowledge as a means of control over their people. They may suppress the media or the education system. In China internet search engines are censored.
However, in terms of personal power, i.e. self control, I would say wisdom is more important. That said, it is possible to increase wisdom through acquisition of knowledge.
Wisdom is more profound. Knowledge is more powerful. That is not to say that power is always a good thing.
2006-09-30 06:34:24 · answer #2 · answered by David 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is more powerful Than Wisdom.
2006-09-29 20:48:11 · answer #3 · answered by j_samuel94 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wisdom is more important.
Anyone can read something and obtain knowledge. However if something pops up that is not covered by the book, that person is lost.
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge. A person with wisdom can reason out the out of the ordinary situation.
Or it can be summed up as "Book smart" vs. "Common Sense".
2006-09-29 20:30:07 · answer #4 · answered by TLWOLFf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at our society!
Lots of knowledge, very little wisdom.
You could still say knowledge was more "powerful",
but the use of wisdom is to know a measure and a goal.
2006-09-30 00:23:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot have wisdom without first having knowledge so it is not an either or situation. Wisdom only comes with time and experience.
2006-09-29 21:11:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is wisdom
2006-09-29 20:43:55 · answer #7 · answered by ROCKSTAR 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wisdom, easily. As the old tyre advert had it, "power is nothing without control". Information is only useful if you know what to do with it.
But don't diss knowledge; it's great; there should be more of it. Sometimes without knowledge, wisdom turns into foolishness, like the traditional healer who told a women she should treat her kid's diarrhoea by depriving the child of water ("he has too much" he said). That's the opposite of knowledge, and no matter how wise he was, he was wrong.
PS I like cannadoo's answer
2006-09-29 21:58:52 · answer #8 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely wisdom as knowledge is one thing because anybody can be very knowledgeable,but not very wise, so yes wisdom is more powerful
2006-09-29 21:04:45 · answer #9 · answered by amber_xx66 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say wisdom. Wisdom comes with knowledge.
2006-09-29 20:26:55 · answer #10 · answered by Mystie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋