Ever since their inception on Earth, humans have consistently strived to cultivate their intellectual potential through sensory and extrasensory perceptions, gathering information and developing a sound understanding of themselves and their surroundings. However, the mere accumulation of knowledge rarely proves productive unless it’s properly organised and put into practice. This gave rise to the question of knowledge and wisdom and the need to understand the relationship between the two.

Knowledge can be defined as the dynamic body of facts, information and skills humans have been acquiring through sensory perceptions, intuition, trial and error, revelation, practical experiences, enculturation and education. The raw facts of knowledge are assimilated and saved in the human mind and, in modern times, in virtual spaces. The environment and the inherent nature of untapped knowledge are neutral and objective; it’s the human perceptions and the underlying biases they hold that define the nature and the utility of the facts. Initially, human life was driven by knowledge, as the........

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