Knowledge vs Wisdom

 

Knowledge is verbal and external.  

Wisdom is cerebral and internal.    

Because of the limitations of verbal communication knowledge is always hampered.   No matter how profound, how genius the wisdom, the moment it is put into words it seems to shrink. 

 

Words are imprecise and limited in scope.  A word can not convey the overall sense of an event -- not the smells and feelings, not every visual detail.  And even if we used a grand flurry of flowery linguistics we still can never be sure our audience actually perceives what we are describing.  

 

Wisdom is that "aha" moment when information clicks into place.  It is internal and totally subjective.  The moment we try to describe the wisdom it shrinks into knowledge.

 

All knowledge is human knowledge. 

 

It is true that other species might know things too,  but we don't know that, so until we do what we know is what we know.

 

And one thing we really do not know is what lies outside our reality.  For us everything begins at birth and ends at death.   We have our religions and philosophies, theories and studies.   We have spent much of our history bankrupting countries and slaughtering the  populace over the parameters of the divine.  It is time for humanity to admit what we know and what we don't know.