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2003, a single year within the information age. With all of the electronics and virtual realities, are we losing sight of our own, of the true reality? Information, information is composed of tried and true facts. Knowledge, information gathered is knowledge. Wisdom, knowledge understood becomes wisdom. Which do we hold to be more valuable in this day and age? Have we sacrificed the greater virtue because it is just too hard to obtain?

Information. Not much can be said for this, it isn't even a virtue, it's more or less, an object. That said, I'd also like to point out that it is the first stepping stone towards Knowledge and Wisdom.

Knowledge, the gathering of information within the human mind. Knowledge, as they say, is power. What power might i ask? The power to mindlessly recall information from within your memory, the power over a simple trivia game? But still, knowing this won't change others' minds. Especially within that of the American school system, which teaches it's young impressional students that knowledge takes precidence over wisdom, I am one of those students. It's not as though I hate knowledge, as it is the second rung in the ladder. My true hatred associated with Knowledge is that people believe this is the end of the education or learning.

Wisdom, it's what I seek, and possibly the last achievement that a man can earn (which is probably why wise people are always depicted as being old in age). To be wise is to understand the world, while someone with knowledge can tell you the route that a specific type of bird may take over the course of his journey south for the winter, a wise man will tell you why the bird goes south, why he takes the route and possibly what goes through the bird's head throughout the course of the trip. Not that being wise consist of the understanding of a bird's journey south, just an example of the differences between that of Knowledge and Wisdom. Wisdom, best defined, could probably be said to be the state in which everything becomes as common sense.

From the way I depicted these, you're more than likely to agree with me that Wisdom is more needed intoday's world. But from your own Experiences, which virtue would hold more ground? Why is that more important to you? is the a specific reason? If you're not sure, I would much rather you not take an uneducated guess at it.

I simply gave these brief, badly done explainations for those who wouldn't know the difference.



This is an interesting question I saw a while ago. I was going to ask the same here, in my own words, but decided that it was much better asked/stated by the person that initially asked this.

I think it's a pretty deep question; one that requires some thought.
So anyway, what are your takes on this. I'd like to hear from you guys what you think/ have to say about this