is it true that people tend to acquire knowledge when they are young, wisdom old? why?

Answer 1

I don't think it's quite that way. Wisdom amounts to experience. Knowledge is just collection of facts and links between them. Many older people don't like to learn. But experience - you just keep acquiring more and more, you can't escape it. By the time you are old, you have a lot of experience.

Answer 2

Damn snowflake, you are a bit of a flake aren't you.
I know a lot of old people. I guess you could say I am tenured (almost 50 now). I love school. I go back to school (college classes) every summer to learn something new. I know more about computer technology than most 16 year olds who have more time to play with computers and take classes in computer technology. I have never taken a class in computer technology. I travel alot. I talk and listen to people. I learn, learn, learn. So, I educate myself in a great deal of data!

Now. Experience has lent me a great deal of wisdom and therefore patience as well, but I have a greater wisdom than most. I have the wisdom of faith. I believe that a person can always learn and in learning will not allow the brain to disintegrate. Most everyone I know feels this way. Teachers, doctors, artists, business CEO's, just older folk that want to learn a new craft and believe that trouble abounds unless you stay busy. But, I don't hang around people who don't like to learn. I have never even met these people. I'm sorry you have. Or, was that just an assumption?

Answer 3

knowledge is nothing but data. wisdom is how to use data to make it meaninful and relevent to your life, which can only come from another data (experience). Usually, people who are old have more 'experience' data than those who are young.

However, wisdom can be aquired faster by correctly assesing knowledge...But only a genius or someone who thinks 'parallel to geometric truth' can usually acquire it fast--can be very intuitive or very order smart. Therefore, a good strategy is to ask old people about their experiences and indirectly get a 'feel' for what they mean...you will never get their full data, because their data is inextricably tied to their perceptions and views...

However, just because your not a genius...doesn't mean you can't acquire this intuition...in fact, you can become a genius, even if your not one now..because..this intuition is in all of us...its the truth of the universe...and it stares you in the face every single day.

and with time...your 'speed of understanding will increase'---the more data you acquire...you will correct your mind (there are many ways to think correctly, but many more not to)...and then become as intelligent as the genius...so in essence....some acquire it later in life...some faster due to lucky random events at childhood.(sometimes these people have it correct but don't know why...so actually..the people who are not as smart at the start of life, but then acquire the knowledge and understand why its correct, and many ways its not as correct, actually end up becoming more intelligent, and wiser in the end)..but all in all, those that are hardworking, give back to society, aggressive, and coherent in their ways of thinking...will be wise, knowledgable, and have a pretty good sketch of the way things are, as well as succesful.

as far as genes are concerned...its way over-reated based on human science...your mother and what she does while your in the womb actually has more of an impact...and the way you were brought up, even more...

what really makes adifference is subtle differences in epigenetics and the way you behave during your life-time....this is what sometimes makes fate a self-fulfilling prohecy...

you think you are stupid because this kid is smarter than you...everyobdy tells you you have add, so then, you don't try, or do anything beccause you assume they are right and you end up becoming what they prophesized...or you are shorter than the guy in the basketball team when you were child...so he got picked but not you, so you played less basketball, and so you did not develope as fast, so naturally, your not going to be as good as basketball..

it DOES NOT MEAN the guy is INHERENTLY better than you at basketball. that would be ridiculous.

In reality, the real thing that holds you back, is nothing from the outside or your abilities, but your mind and your inhibitions.

Answer 4

The first wisdom is to know knowledge is power, even if in that first thought the idea for knowledge is limited to something less than all possibility. For wisdom in its conceptual identity its described as an intuition, a thought before knowledge itself in its immediate sense as knowledge, rather than the knowledge of memory or remembered things. Most wisdom, for the most part, is rent from thoughts describing thoughts and their genesis and the musings in dialog, shared experience between people who actually have the desire to speak to each other.

Answer 5

As a granny speaking, you never have to be smart to have wisdom...the wisest people I know are in their 80's..I don't think there is any way to acquire wisdom except through living life.

Answer 6

The acquisition of knowledge, then the application of it, tends to become wisdom.

Answer 7

Usually yes, because people learn the hard way. Nothing prevents , though, to learn when young except the refusal to be aware at the best possible level of alertness.

Answer 8

This is true as we are born to be reared and learn from examples of others. When we become elderly we aquire wisdom through our own life experiences.

Answer 9

It is untrue. Getting older does not meaning getting knowledge as well. Intellegent sometimes is not wise. When you counter with emgency, you still can reponse smoothly rightly without any hesitation.