Never mistake knowledge for wisdom

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life." ~ -Sandra Carey

'Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting in your fruit salad."

Wisdom is acquired by time and experiences in life. Common sense is a form of wisdom. You learn as you live kind of thing. Though knowledge and Wisdom are not same, still they both


go side by side. To understand it in simple way please take knowledge as sword and wisdom as an art of using sword. Knowledge is like a tool kit you need to make do or repair something and wisdom is how to use the tool kit so that you may get best out of your tool kit of knowledge. If you have just the art of making some product but you don't have the tools than your art is of no use. Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. So if knowledge is power then wisdom is how to use that power. Knowledge is about what is or was. Wisdom is about what is going to happen, or at least knowing why something happened one way instead of another. 

Most students in life treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid to be chewed, and then wonder why it provides so little nourishment. You may say you have knowledge of the future, but really you have knowledge about clues to the future, and the wisdom to interpret what it actually means. Not exactly. Knowledge can be gained by almost anyone by simply learning facts through study or experience. Like learning the multiplication tables. The truth is knowledge can be swallowed by any one unlike wisdom that has to be chewed to digestion. That's why it takes years to accumulate wisdom. And those who acquire at a tender age tend to become prodigy and a legend on the spiritual plane. 

Only wisdom speaks more to problem solving or decision making. Learning how to talk is knowledge, knowing when to keep your mouth shut is wisdom! Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. The two are not the same for they do not always accompany one another. A man may have a great deal of knowledge and not a great deal of wisdom. And that is, I think, most evident in some of the common types of illustrations that we could think of. For example an uneducated man may often be superior to an educated man or a scholar in wisdom, though he may fall far behind in knowledge. 

Knowledge is something that we learn through the schools. Wisdom is something that we have by virtue of experience; by the application of the knowledge that we learn. Knowledge is something that we store up in our minds, in which we may possess without any real application of it, but wisdom is very practical; it is the application of knowledge to specific situations so that a man becomes wise through the application of knowledge to particular situations thus out of his experience he becomes wise.

Many men have a great deal of education but manifest very little common sense in them. We often say that he or she is educated beyond his intelligence; and we know exactly what that means. Well, there are people like that who are educated far beyond their intelligence. They have been in school and they have their degrees, but they do not have the practical understanding that ought to go with it.

Knowledge might be easily understood as acquired facts that are valid, reliable and quantifiable, while wisdom might best be understood as the appropriate application of acquiring knowledge so as to produce results that are beneficial to all. Knowledge can be achieved, wisdom comes from within. A person having less knowledge can win the situation with his wisdom.

Wisdom is a weightless treasure you always carry with ease. Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wisdom endures. 

At the outset, while baring our soul, we should ponder which of the two, acquiring knowledge and using with or without wisdom is important. On the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done wisely, knowing very well that wisdom is the sweet to our soul!