knowledge vs wisdom
Definitions
noun
- 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.
God answers our prayers because by addressing them to Him we acknowledge His Lordship and power.
Definitions
noun
- 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.
Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language.
Folk wisdom tells of the abundance that follows a freeze.
