The role of knowledge in business is familiar to all of us. Wisdom, however, is more elusive and its usefulness less wellknown. Knowledge can best be defined as “acquired facts.” Wisdom, however, is a ...

Wisdom snuck up on me. I wasn’t looking for it. It didn’t announce itself. And, quite frankly, I thought for a long time that knowledge and wisdom were twins. I’ve come to learn they’re cousins. In ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” This is easily understood as true, for knowledge is quickly acquired with effort, but wisdom requires experience, the best of all ...

In ninth grade, I had a wonderful, high-energy social studies teacher whose favorite exhortation was "wisdom and knowledge!" He'd usually punctuate it by thwacking his yardstick against a desk while ...

There are three basic ways to express your thoughts about anything: Opinions, knowledge and wisdom. Opinions are your personal reflections on any subject, from politics to sports. They may or may not ...

Every time I utter the word "wisdom," someone giggles or sneers. Wisdom, more so even than expertise, does not sit comfortably in a democratic, anti-elitist society. In an age dominated by science and ...