2007-01-20 21:55:30 · 15 answers · asked by raja 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Knowledge is simply accumulation of data.
Wisdom is the power to differentiate the good from the bad and to pick the right from the wrong.
If knowledge is the Ocean wisdom is its Depth.
If knowledge is the Mountain wisdom is its Peak
2007-01-21 02:13:32 · answer #1 · answered by balaGraju 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many nice answers to this one already! One simple way of looking at it could also be to compare it to money. You can collect millions of dollars, and be smart enough to keep it - just like you can collect knowledge and be smart enough to remember what you've learnt. But when it comes to making use of your riches - that's where wisdom comes in. For wisdom, you need experience/discernment or empathy, or all. If you don't have wisdom, you will use the money/the knowledge on worthless or destructive things. With experience and careful evaluation of the past and of what might be expected of the future, and with empathy enough to understand the impact that your use of your riches/your knowledge will have on others, you will be able to make wise decisions.
A child can have wisdom without having experience, since a child can have empathy. So a child could give whatever it owns to someone who truly needs it, out of compassion or out of love. In my eyes, that is wisdom, too - maybe the highest form of wisdom.
2007-01-20 23:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by AskAsk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can earn the knowledge in schools,collages and through study.
Wisdom is a subject of our genetic code.
When we learn more,experience more ,our wisdom will increase in same manner.
This leads to us a very typical finding that although the wisdom is a part of our body but it depends on our knowledge also.
2007-01-20 22:09:16 · answer #3 · answered by Girish Sharma,yahoo superstar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In MY opinion, I think knowledge comes from things like books, school, studying and reading.. like math; science; computers.. But wisdom is more about things that you have learned from experience through out your life, about people or just how the world works. That's why it's hard for young people to have a lot of wisdom.
2007-01-20 22:08:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is the general knowlegde of things, how they work, how to write, calculate, read etc. Wisdom is much harder. To be wise means to look behind things, not at them. To have a greater understanding of the world.
2007-01-20 22:29:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is to know. Wisdom is to know how to apply knowledge in any given situation.
2007-01-21 07:46:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is what you've learned in life. Wisdom is what comes from your heart.
2007-01-20 22:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by Bob G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is the ability to apply what you know to change that which you can change and to accept that which you can not change. Wisdom is being able to tell the difference.
2007-01-21 07:31:28 · answer #8 · answered by ikeman32 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suppose the clearest and most accurate way of explaining the difference is this...Knowledge is what you know, wisdom is knowing what to do with it.
Hope that helps,
BobSpain
2007-01-20 23:05:46 · answer #9 · answered by BobSpain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have knowledge, you're just erudite, while if you have wisdom, then you're wise.
the difference is that the knowledge just consist in knowing a lot of facts, things, dates, names and so on, wisdom is both to know them and to be able to use them.
to be wise you have to be erudite and to use your erudition in your life, to understand thing and not just to show people you know things.
2007-01-20 22:08:28 · answer #10 · answered by niglelmacinulty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋