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I cannot agree with the above statement that knowledge understood becomes wisdom. Understanding is a step towards wisdom but it is not equal to its achievement. And that knowledge is gathered information... I'm not sure I agree with this definition too. For anybody nowadays has access to knowledge, because he has access to information, but the fact is knowledge is rare. Knowledge is more complex than simply gathering information, which is something anybody could do, as wisdom is more complex than simply understanding what you know. There are necessary information and unnecessary information. Both of them can become knowledge, according to the opinion of the person who's written this statement. And this is something I don't think it's true. For real knowledge is not the act of gathering the information, but the act of choosing, after you've gathered the info, and the act of judging too. Which implies you need to understand to gain knowledge as well, while wisdom is on an above level. It requires experience, intelligence, patience and much more. That's why wisdom is even more rare than knowledge IMO: because first of all it requires too much hard work on yourself. And if you ask me, not anybody is made for true Wisdom, like not anybody is made for philosophy (which are somewhat similar, from some points of view). You must be a real connoisseur of your person and of the mechanisms of your mind to become wise, you don't simply need to understand what you learn. But this is something that's not proper of our age. Wisdom has always been for an elite, not for anyone, and it'll always be like that. While knowledge is easier to obtain for some clever person nowadays.
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