The difference between knowledge and wisdom is that one is what you know and the other is what you gain from experiences or mistakes. As most people know, knowledge is what you know or learn from the past. People gain knowledge from reading books, watching informational television shows, or going to school. Now wisdom is learning but it’s from experiences and mistakes you have previously went through, not from books and shows. My opinion on this is that knowledge is from a book, and wisdom is from living life. In college, I feel that we are acquiring both knowledge and wisdom. For example, in college we are advancing our knowledge by reading books, learning a variety of different subjects, and learning the right concepts to be successful with our career. For wisdom, students are learning what happens when you get too drunk in public, or experiencing how it feels to live on your own. Students are experiencing what can go wrong with certain actions and later on make sure that doesn’t happen again. I feel that the information age has just made us more knowledgeable since it’s providing us with a lot of information to be read.
I totally agree with you about how Hynek has the best argument. After reading all of the arguments, you can see how Hynek is the best argument because he is able to show you how there needs to be more gathering of data from other countries besides America. It does not help to back up their arguments about UFO sightings if they do not have outside resources to back it up. Even when reading all three of the arguments, you can see how all of them talk about how there is a lack of data being gathered about UFO sightings. It seems that in that sense they are all on the same page and see that there is some loose ends with what they believe about UFOs.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom is a great one.Knowledge is what you know or learn from the past like you said. Knowledge is what we accumulate while attending our schooling years and college before joining the working force. What we learn from school is then added onto our experiences as wisdom which helps with your career is positive ways because we know what we should and should not do. We also gain wisdom now while in college or just growing up in general by the mistakes we make. Once we make that mistake like you stated, getting too drunk in public, you remember how things went down when you went overboard that specific night. You then remember the next time you go out to not drink as much.
ReplyDeleteI agree with basically everything you said about the differences between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge will essentially help you know a lot of facts, but I think you need wisdom more in order to get even further in life because wisdom is what you need in order to put those facts to use to get higher on the success scale. In college I feel like we are learning a tad bit more knowledge, but the experiences we have in college help shape our wisdom and helps us make better decisions down the road because we end up learning from our silly mistakes.
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