Wisdom is....
Albert Einstein once said, ‘Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.’ Subject matter experts number in the thousands, but the wise may only number in the tens or hundreds. And history records their names and achievements for posterity’s sake.
If you don’t have wisdom that goes with knowledge, you are only a walking encyclopedia. A book of knowledge is useless without the wisdom to know how to apply that knowledge. We see Doctorates who don’t have the wisdom to keep their family intact. They can write a book about raising children but they don’t have the wisdom to actually raise their own.
Insight is the deepest level of knowing and the most meaningful to your life. Insight is a deeper and clearer perception of life, of knowledge, of wisdom. It’s grasping the underlying nature of knowledge, and the essence of wisdom. Insight is a truer understanding of your life and the bigger picture of how things intertwine.
Sadly we can gain a lifetime of knowledge, yet never see the wisdom in it. We can be wise, but still miss the deeper meaning.
Knowledge is knowing how to manage your money, budgeting, spending, saving. Wisdom is understanding how money impacts the quality of your life and your future. Insight is realizing that money is simply a tool to be used, that it has no inherent meaning beyond its usefulness.
Knowledge is learning how to paint and using that skill to cultivate a livelihood. Wisdom is expressing your passion through painting and understanding that art is a form of communication that touches the lives of others. Insight is perceiving that all things can be art and that creating your art contributes to the understanding and the expression of the essence of the world around you.
Knowledge is knowing which things, practices, people, and pleasures make you happy. Wisdom is knowing that while those things may bring you pleasure, happiness is not derived from things or situations or people. It’s the understanding that happiness comes from within, and that it’s a temporary state of mind. Insight is knowing that happiness is not the purpose of life, that it’s not the marker of the quality of life—it’s merely one of the many fleeting states of mind in the spectrum of full emotions. Those emotions don’t make up our lives; they are merely experiences.
Source: Royale Scuderi