knowledge vs wisdom

knowledge

Definitions

noun

  1. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Examples

The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.

Measurement Intangible assets, such as knowledge and learning, account for a large part of a company's value.

It is not only our senses, but our very intuitive faculties that cease to provide us with the necessary adaptive knowledge.

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wisdom

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noun

  1. an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

Examples

Two bus-rides and a walk in the rain later we found the old dairy farm, muttering under our breaths about the wisdom of locating such an establishment way out in the sticks.

Folk wisdom tells of the abundance that follows a freeze.

Received entomological wisdom holds that a ‘prudent’ parasite does not kill its host.

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