Knowledge VS Wisdom
Posted at 08:30 AM

"There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” (p132)

 

            Knowledge versus Wisdom.

            Knowing everything doesn’t necessarily mean that you are wise and being wise doesn’t necessarily make you a person capable of knowing anything.

            They say that to understand the future, we should analyze our past. Learn history that is. The theories that infest our minds when we enter college do all but show us the real thing. And so the experience believers were born.

            They are those that believe that experience is the better teacher. Take a case for example. Julian knows that beer is bitter and it make you go haywire when too much of it is in your system. She knows that it is bad but she still tastes it. Curiosity? Perhaps. But then she wants to experience it firsthand. Whether she gets hooked by it or affirms the theories about it, it is her personality that would decide.

            Let’s assume that learning and knowing are two different things. Learning is reading or studying about a particular thing or instance while knowing is actually learning the same thing in a first-person way. It may waste more time but you never digest what you learn until you truly know. It is what you know that gives you the conviction to do or not to do a thing. Learning, on the other hand, render things half-baked.

            But is experience the best teacher? Not alone perhaps. For we should not walk in the dark just relying on the other four senses. A candle would be handy. So that we would not stumble. So that we would not fall down. So that we can have even a vague sense of the other side. So that we may continue our journey.
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