The difference between knowledge and wisdom?

[kentuck]

[arcane1]

1. That explains it better than anything I've seen.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Reminds me of the Will Rogers quote

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Will Rogers

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

3. Interesting.

My grandfather, as he approached 90, used to like to talk a lot about "wisdom". I never quite grasped what he was telling me, ultimately feeling like I had a better understanding of the concept before he tried to explain it. I think you've helped bring me back from that mild confusion.

I generally don't like fruits, but now that you've prompted me to examine what foods are or are not fruits, I may change that. I envision a fruit salad of peppers, pea pods, olives, and cucumbers. Hmm. Or maybe I'll just continue to eat them separately.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Fruit_vs_Vegetable

Some surprising things are actually fruits and not vegetables.

[hfojvt]

4. funny perhaps, but trivial

making fruit salad hardly rises to any level of importance.

"...the task of education would be, first and foremost, the transmission of ideas of value, of what to do with our lives. There is no doubt also the need to transmit know-how but this must take second place, for it is obviously somewhat foolhardy to put great powers into the hands of people without making sure they have a reasonable idea of what to do with them. At present, there can be little doubt that mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if it produces more wisdom."

Schumacher 1973 p. 82

In that formulation wisdom is the ability to use your knowledge constructively rather than destructively.