i want to know what is the different between knowledge & wisdom?

Answer 1

Knowledge is the collection of information one gathers throughout their life.

Wisdom is the ability to use that knowledge well.

Another way to look at it:

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
-- Jimi Hendrix

Dang.... IQ beat me to the quote.

Answer 2

a person can read a book about how to get along well with people how to be helpful nice kind and useful. they could even go to school and become a doctor to learn a great deal about all of that . that would mean that person has a great deal of knowledge. you can almost buy knowledge.
wisdom on the other hand would be a person who has lived with the very poor the sick the hungry and the rich and the fat .
none of them would have given him a book about how to be helpful and nice and useful all the thing the doctor read about in school . there is a very good chance that this man who took this path found wisdom collecting on his shoes as he walked . wisdom is only available when the person is moving interacting seeing feeling touching hearing asking and wanting . even then some wont manage to get much while others still without the books on the same walk may find so much wisdom has collected on there shoes some would say they are unworthy to kiss the feet of the person for he is so wise.
the doctor can go on this same walk after or before he reads the books but he would be better to read the books first because after the walk he would most likely find the books all too boring to read.
another way to put this is a man with much knowledge meets a young child and is asked to tend to the child that day by the parent . the man with knowledge says to himself what can i teach this child today . the man who has wisdom when with the child says i wonder what i can learn from this child today.

Answer 3

"...Wisdom is difficult to define or explain, but for the sake of
simplicity we may consider it to include all knowledge, but with the added advantage of deciphering what
is true and what is not, super intelligence, which does not gain information from only the past but has the
capacity to interpret information from the future. It does not rely exclusively on data input but incorporates
vision, instinct, intuition, imagination and innovation.

Knowledge may offer a number of ways which have been proven to be effective, whereas wisdom is in
choosing different ways or an even better way. Simply put, knowledge comes from an external source, but
wisdom comes from an internal knowing. "

I got the above from the website listed below.

My simple answer: Knowledge is knowing. Wisdom is the ability to effectively apply what is known.

Answer 4

if knowledge were a rock, wisdom would be a flower. what i mean is, knowledge, or the ability for knowledge, we are born with. wisdom, however, can grow...it can be nurtured by things that will make you realize something that seems so obvious, yet its really not. its quite facinating, discovering things. dont you think? i think a lot. thats kinda how i thought of this. when i saw you asked that question, i thought it was so ironic that i once had been thinking the same exact thing. funny, how it works like that.

Answer 5

The late American philosopher Will Rogers once illustrated the difference between knowledge and wisdom this way:

1) Knowledge is when you stand on a railroad track and, seeing the approaching light and hearing the horn you say to yourself, "Self, a train is coming."

2) Understanding is when you are standing there and observing the approaching train, you say to yourself, "Self, if you stay on this railroad track, the train will run over you."

3) Wisdom is when you get off the railroad track.

Answer 6

Knowledge is just knowing but wisdom is gained by age and actually doing.

Answer 7

Knowledge is that which is learned from a book or person and retained for use. Wisdom is collecting knowledge from various sources and discerning the truest path to follow and then actually following that path.

Answer 8

I feel that knowledge is of learning, where wisdom is through experience. The dictionary sates the following:
Knowledge is the fact or state of knowing, a range of information or understanding, what is known, the body of facts,etc. accumulated by mankind.
Wisdom is the quality of being wise, which is having or showing good judgement, informed, learned.

Answer 9

Now this is just my humble opinion but I say knowledge is knowing facts. Wisdom is knowing what to do with that knowledge.

Answer 10

Only through knowledge we can achieve wisdom