Mar 30, 2014

Knowledge vs Wisdom

The two words-knowledge and wisdom, may at first seem the same but as it turns out are not. I find that knowledge is just a piece of information, an experience or a fact that we have absorbed at some point in our life that will stay hidden somewhere in the depths of our brain until it's needed. But wisdom is knowing what to do with that knowledge and also a perspective we form throughout our lives.
This can be expressed in a simple quote that we might experience in our every day lives:

And also:

As these two quotes show us again then knowledge is something we learn and wisdom something we absorb using the knowledge, but this raises a question. When trying to define a fact then to what extenct can we define knowledge and at what point starts wisdom? Where can we draw the line?
When searching the internet to find the anwser to the difference between knowledge and wisdom we might encounter many similar but at the same time very different anwsers. For example one definition might say

"Knowledge is obtained, Wisdom is developed" 

and the others  might say

"Wisdom is ability to judge"

"Knowledge is what you know and wisdom is what to know"

At first glance they all seem similar but as we can see the wording and the approach is different. That shows us that people define knowledge and wisdom differently, but based on that we can ask if the explanation of the difference between knowldege and wisdom is different, can we really have a similar understanding of it and how can we be sure that everyones perspective towards the aspect is the same?