2007-04-05 00:35:12 · 12 answers · asked by pollyanna 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Knowledge is what you learn from studying reading and keeping up with the world around you. Knowledge is learned. Wisdom comes from life experience and cannot be learned from books, etc. It is what you gain from living, surviving, and making it through the trials and tribulations of life.
2007-04-05 00:51:47 · answer #1 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge... knowledge is the appropriate collection of information, such that it's intent is to be useful. Knowledge is a deterministic process. When someone "memorizes" information then they have amassed knowledge. This knowledge has useful meaning to them, but it does not provide for, in and of itself, an integration such as would infer further knowledge. For example, elementary school children memorize, or amass knowledge of, the "times table". They can tell you that "2 x 2 = 4" because they have amassed that knowledge (it being included in the times table). But when asked what is "1267 x 300", they can not respond correctly because that entry is not in their times table. To correctly answer such a question requires a true cognitive and analytical ability that is only encompassed in the next level... understanding. In computer parlance, most of the applications we use (modeling, simulation, etc.) exercise some type of stored knowledge.
Wisdom... wisdom is an extrapolative and non-deterministic, non-probabilistic process. It calls upon all the previous levels of consciousness, and specifically upon special types of human programming (moral, ethical codes, etc.). It beckons to give us understanding about which there has previously been no understanding, and in doing so, goes far beyond understanding itself. It is the essence of philosophical probing. Unlike the previous four levels, it asks questions to which there is no (easily-achievable) answer, and in some cases, to which there can be no humanly-known answer period. Wisdom is therefore, the process by which we also discern, or judge, between right and wrong, good and bad. I personally believe that computers do not have, and will never have the ability to posses wisdom. Wisdom is a uniquely human state, or as I see it, wisdom requires one to have a soul, for it resides as much in the heart as in the mind. And a soul is something machines will never possess (or perhaps I should reword that to say, a soul is something that, in general, will never possess a machine).
2007-04-05 07:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by shelz042000 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge is information acquired from sources and stored in the brain. Wisdom comes from learning how to use that information. Knowledge can be gained quickly,,, wisdom can not.
2007-04-05 07:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by Joseph L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is information you learn from books. Wisdom is the ability to use that information correctly and creatively, which you can only learn by making decisions, preferably wrong ones.
2007-04-05 07:52:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
knowledge is like school work and wisdom is what you learn from from life
2007-04-05 09:28:17 · answer #5 · answered by bigbro108 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
knowledge is information and understanding about a subject but wisdom is the ability to use your experience and knowledge to make sensible decisions and judgments.
2007-04-05 07:41:07 · answer #6 · answered by Afsaneh D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can give you wisdom through His Word. Wisdon of Jesus, wisdom of Salomon.
Wisdom: = 1. The quality of been wise; power of judging rigthtly and following the soundest course of action, based on knowledge, experience, understanding, etc. good judment; sagacity. 2. learning knowledge; erudition/the wisdom of the ages/ 3. (Now Rare) wise discourse or teaching. 4. a wise plan or course of action.
Knowledge: = 1. confession, to know, to have a clear perception or understanding of; 2. to be aware or cognizant of; have perceived or learned, to know that one is loved. 3. to have a firm mental grasp of; have securely in the memory/ to know the multiplication tables/ 4. a) to be acquainted or familiar with/knew him well/. b). to experience/she has known both pleasure and pain/ 5. to have understanding of or skill in as a result of study or experience/ to know music/ 6. to recognice/ 1. d) i'd know that face anywhere./ 7. to recognice as distinct; distinguish/ to know right from wrong/. To have knowledge, to be sure informed or aware, etc.
2007-04-05 09:14:35 · answer #7 · answered by Tititita 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is being aware of something, wisdom is understanding the implications of something.
2007-04-05 07:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by Shakespeare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You con know lots. Wisdom is using that knowledge to make good decisions.
2007-04-05 07:38:23 · answer #9 · answered by foogill 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge is what you know. Wisdom is understanding and knowing how to use what you know well.
2007-04-05 07:38:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋