“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom”. This is a famous quote from author Charles Haddon. He believed that knowledge was powerful and important and that is was vital to not become arrogant but rather to know how to put what you know to effective use was truly wisdom. To know and understand something is not be wise, for wisdom comes with the true use of putting your knowledge into action. The difference between understanding and knowledge is simply that knowledge does not require understanding. Plenty of people can know something but their ability in incapability to comprehend and further understand it is a total different thing. For example, I can know how that when I put I put cookies in the oven they will come out golden brown but if I do not understand what it takes to get them to be that way then my knowledge is of no use. I believe that a full intelligence comes from a combination of understanding and knowing something. Both requires that someone has seen or heard the information before and has some familiarity with it. Understanding something is a building block to using your knowledge of it in the right way. Both are very important and key to a strong intellectual mind.
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