Wisdom vs. Understanding — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wisdom and Understanding
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Wisdom
Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence.Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.
Understanding
Understanding is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to use concepts to model that object. Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding.
Wisdom
The ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight.
Understanding
The ability by which one understands; intelligence
Concepts that are beyond the understanding of a child.
Wisdom
Common sense; good judgment
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things" (Henry David Thoreau).
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Understanding
The quality or condition of one who understands; comprehension
Do you have much understanding of calculus?.
Wisdom
The sum of learning through the ages; knowledge
"In those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations" (Maya Angelou).
Understanding
Individual or specified judgment or outlook; opinion
In my understanding, this is a good plan.
Wisdom
Wise teachings of the ancient sages.
Understanding
A usually implicit agreement between two or more people or groups
An understanding between neighbors over late-night noise.
Wisdom
A wise outlook, plan, or course of action.
Understanding
A disposition to appreciate or share the feelings and thoughts of others; sympathy
Can't you show some understanding for the poor child?.
Wisdom
Wisdom(Bible) Wisdom of Solomon.
Understanding
Characterized by or having good sense or compassion
An understanding teacher.
Wisdom
(uncountable) An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
Understanding
The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
Wisdom
(countable) A piece of wise advice.
Understanding
(countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
Wisdom
The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
Understanding
(countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.
Wisdom
The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
Understanding
(countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
Wisdom
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
Understanding
An informal contract; mutual agreement.
I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
Wisdom
(theology) The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
Understanding
A reconciliation of differences.
The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
Wisdom
(rare) A group of wombats.
Understanding
(uncountable) Sympathy.
He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
Wisdom
(rare) A group of owls.
Understanding
Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance.
Wisdom
The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment; discretion; sagacity; skill; dexterity.
We speak also not in wise words of man's wisdom, but in the doctrine of the spirit.
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
It is hoped that our rulers will act with dignity and wisdom that they will yield everything to reason, and refuse everything to force.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Understanding
(dated) Knowing; skilful.
Wisdom
The results of wise judgments; scientific or practical truth; acquired knowledge; erudition.
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwellsIn heads replete with thoughts of other men;Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass,The mere materials with which wisdom builds,Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place,Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Understanding
Present participle of understand
Wisdom
Accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
Understanding
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
Wisdom
The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
Understanding
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
Wisdom
Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
Understanding
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.
Wisdom
The quality of being prudent and sensible
Understanding
The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
But there is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The perception of ideas in our mind; 2. The perception of the signification of signs; 3. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand.
In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity; and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension.
Wisdom
An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
Understanding
Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons; and thus in the meaning in which "verstand" is now employed by the Germans.
Understanding
The cognitive condition of someone who understands;
He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect
Understanding
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
There was an understanding between management and the workers
Understanding
An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion;
His sympathies were always with the underdog
I knew I could count on his understanding
Understanding
The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;
We are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
Understanding
Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy;
An understanding friend
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