What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2008 by

boogie

This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 02, 2008:

knowledge is what you know. wisdom is what you do with it.

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18 minutes later

boogie said

according to Socrates, knowledge consists of the things we are taught, and wisdom is the ability to discern truth (or lack of it) in those things.

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36 minutes later

Nicole said

excellent!

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boogie said

or maybe knowledge is the hot air and wisdom is the soap. put em together and you got bubbles!! nice for a little while, then *poof* it's gone.

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ruth said

“poof” its gone. Yup, neither are a free ride. We have to keep being open to pushing the boundaries on what we think we know and understand
:).

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Flax said

What you say is very wise. I have helped to create a school for obtaining wisdom, http://www.onlinehumanities.com. Please let me know what you think.

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about 16 hours later

kcidybom said

I like the hot air and soap - thanks Stacy…

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9 days later

julia said

knowledge is knowing that 2+2=4 and wisdom is being buhda

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