Let’s distinguish wisdom from knowledge in general. It is more than just practical information about how the world is, how to maintain things like our health or our prosperity. Wisdom refers to the ...

German-Swiss writer Hermann Hesse explored the difference between knowledge and wisdom. He believed knowledge can be taught, ...

I was marveling at the vast amount of information available with Google and Wikipedia this week, when I began to consider what to do with the information. I thought that it really is just information ...

Wisdom snuck up on me. I wasn’t looking for it. It didn’t announce itself. And, quite frankly, I thought for a long time that knowledge and wisdom were twins. I’ve come to learn they’re cousins. In ...

Knowledge is doing right; wisdom is motivation to do still better. Knowledge is having good intuition (a combination of gut and deliberation): wisdom is still honing your intuitions. Knowledge is ...

It's a complaint often heard in law enforcement agencies nationwide: "We don't know what we don't know." Police from one jurisdiction are unaware of a burglary ring operating in a neighboring city. Or ...