Sunday, July 15, 2007

Wisdom $ Knowledge

Wisdom is the practical side or application of knowledge.
Functions of wisdom includes--
- Showing us what is important.
- Giving proportion to what we know.
- Enabling us to use insight skillfully to reach a desired goal.
- Helping us to experience the benefit of our acquired knowledge.
There are two kinds of wisdom namely;
1 The Wisdom of the World
2 The Wisdom of God.
Each kind of wisdom is distinguished by it's motives.
The wisdom of the world uses knowledge to get ahead at the expense of others,knowledge can either make you arrogant or enables you to love. Knowledge can make you know but wisdom will make you become because wisdom is the practical application of knowledge. Those that knows why will always lead those that knows how.
Knowledge without wisdom is like marriage without love and it's a waste. Wisdom on the other hand is impossible without knowledge.
Real wisdom is not only a function of the mind but also a condition of the heart. It is the manipulation of knowledge and information to accomplish seemingly impossible purposes that defines true wisdom.
The kind of Wisdom that we as human must pursue must be;
-Pure not infected with selfish ambition.
-Peaceble values good relationship with others.
-Gentle knows the importance of handling others with care
-Willing to yield
-Full of mercy
-Without partility
-Without hypocrisy it puts the wellbeing of others above selfish interest.
Dangers Of Knowledge.
Knowledge without Wisdom is dangerous and infected knowledge is to human mind what corrupted files are to our computers. There is downside to living on an information highway as with everything else in life, overloaded computers can crash and our mind can lock up if also overloaded with blinding blizzard of data.

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