Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit

«Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.»

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The heaviest tomato according to Guinness World Record weighed 3.51 kg and was grown in 1986, Oklahoma, USA.

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knowledge (noun — существительное) знание, эрудиция

to demonstrate, display, show knowledge — обнаруживать знания

to acquire, accumulate, gain knowledge — приобретать, накапливать, получать знания

to have a good knowledge of English (medicine, etc.) — хорошо знать английский язык (медицину и т. п. )

wisdom (noun — существительное) мудрость

to impart wisdom — поделиться жизненным опытом

to grow in wisdom — набираться мудрости

mature wisdom — приходящая с возрастом мудрость

profound wisdom — глубокая мудрость

a person of great wisdom — мудрый человек

heavy (adjective — прилагательное) тяжелый

to weigh (verb — глагол) взвешивать, весить

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«Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.»

Эрудиция — знание, что помидоры являются фруктами, а мудрость — понимание, что не стоит их добавлять в фруктовый салат.

The heaviest tomato according to Guinness World Record weighed 3.51 kg and was grown in 1986, Oklahoma, USA.

Согласно книге рекордов Гиннеса, самый тяжелый помидор, весивший более 3,5 кг, был выращен в штате Оклахома в 1986 году.

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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit

This is a proverb meaning that knowledge correctly applied is wisdom.

Although a tomato is a fruit, it would not taste good in a fruit salad.

@Mariah-Fisher it’s a saying to express the fact that knowledge and wisdom are complimentary.

Knowledge is information that you know in your head.
Wisdom is what you do with that knowledge.

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„Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.“

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5 methods for converting knowledge into wisdom

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that a tomato doesn’t belong in a fruit salad”

I read this quote and it simply got me thinking for few minutes. I decided to reflect on some of my experiences.

Knowledge and Wisdom could have several meaning. I describe knowledge as something you gather from learning, education, training, or reading type activities. Wisdom is applicability of knowledge with combination of your memory, conscience, emotional stability, and gut feeling. Of course, there are other elements which affect your wisdom but I am going to focus on understanding and applicability of knowledge in life: This is what I refer to converting knowledge into wisdom.

Knowledge: gathered from learning and training and coaching
Wisdom: comes from day to day experiences. A state of being wise.

“Smoking is dangerous to health” is printed on every single cigarette box in this world but people do smoke it. Some people are heavy smokers. Why? All of them have this knowledge but they still smoke. So Knowledge alone does not make big difference. It require much more than knowledge to not to smoke which is Wisdom.

I am writing this blog for normal people much like me who read book, attend training, and engage in active discussion with friends and colleagues to find ways to be a better person or a better human or to live a better life.

5 methods which I have experienced and enhanced my ability to convert knowledge into wisdom. There are many other methods but I found these 5 as most effective for me.

1. Take Notes: Physical or digital, do take notes. This is for me the most important and foremost method. It has been proven scientifically that an average human mind can remember only very limited percentage (5 or 10% max) after 24 hours. So take notes to capture a thought, a quote, an idea, or an insight.

Taking note has four major benefits

1) It clears your mind

2) It shows importance of the topic to other people when you are in meeting/discussion

3) It can be referred in future as human mind can’t retain all in memory

4) It could be a used a weapon in your outreach armory

Let me deep dive in fourth benefits in particular. If you store your notes of the book you have read, good quotes you saw/read, and insights you have about yourself and stories which inspired you. If all of these are available into a common notebook/application, this is your secret and valuable weapon which you can against yourself in positive way. When you are not so encouraged or not in a great time or feeling low, take this notebook or application and start reading this collection. In my opinion, everybody needs some dose of inspiration once in a while. I have found this very useful in my life.

I strongly recommend a common place for storing your notes. Smart phones and tablet have made this so easy. I used to add those quotes in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Now I am storing in Evernote application. I still have to combine migrate old quotes from Microsoft PowerPoint to Evernote. So start taking notes.

2. Ask question to yourself or speculate: When I read anything great, I ask myself – can I apply this into life? Is there anything I can do better using knowledge I just acquired? You got to articulate and look for possible applicability in past, present and future. Ask yourself questions like – “Could I have applied in past?”. Or “Can I apply in any situation I have in hand or I am going to face in future?”

I had a meeting schedule with a senior manager. Just day before this meeting, I was reading something interesting about marketing, which was totally irrelevant for this meeting but I ask can I apply somewhere. And I decide to apply into this meeting. Although I could not apply as I was expected but I enjoyed the process. I will share his into more detail in next method. So ask question to yourself.

3. Discuss with friend, mentor or colleague: This is very effective. I strongly suggest to share what you see or what you understand and ask you colleague or friend to share what they see or understand. Ask what you would have applied this in past situation? Now I do not go to anyone and ask for their advice or view. I do have a circle of professional and personal network and I do discuss with few of them more often as compared with some of others. However, I do often (almost daily) discuss my insights, my experiences, quotes with my wife. Sometime she is little frustrated as I have a tendency to go in very details but most of the time she is willing to listen to me and share her thoughts. I do have some great friends with whom I discuss. So to summarize, discuss with friends, mentor, colleague or wife – whosoever you think can contribute but do share your views.

4. Try it: This is no brainer. You got to try it. Unless you try, you are not in game. You are like a spectator who is standing in the stadium or like a player who is getting ready for the game. If you want to win the game, you have to play the game. Now it is not sure if you will get success of failure but this is sure that playing will make you a better player and your chances to win in next game will increase because you are now a better player.

Btw it is very easy to tell someone what to do (knowledge) compared to do in real situation (wisdom). So if you are watching a game played by someone else, do not condemn (or angry with) them for their mistake. Being in court to play itself is very courageous and warrants appreciation. Just remind yourself that “It is so easy to give advice to others but difficult to follow yourself.”

As I mentioned in method 2 above, I read an article which I decided to apply for a meeting scheduled with a senior manager. I prepared for meeting with all agenda items and my notes were front of me during meeting. It was a telephonic call so I have no one looking at me. I started perfectly but within 5 minutes I was much diverted from my agenda. We finished on time and it was a good meeting but I could not apply knowledge I learned. But I tried. I look for reflection which is my fourth method. But I tried. Similarly you have to try. You will meet sweet success and sour failures but you got to try. There is no alternative.

5. Review: I find review is the only method to improve further. After attempting to apply the knowledge, review it. Did it work? What did not work? How would you do it differently in future?

When I did a review of my meeting with senior manager and reflected on what went wrong and what did I learn. I learned that I probably need to go slow for next meeting. I was too excited to share my view and difference it could make, I could slow down my speaking in my next meeting. I could also prepare a slide for next meeting to support my thoughts/idea. So review when you try something new. You may not only discover why these did not work but can also find a new insight which could be something new for next time. It could be that you only require some adjustments based on need of the other person.

I do weekly review of my task, goals etc and as part of process is to capture 3 things/behaviour/actions which worked during last week and another 3 things/behaviour/actions which did not work last week. This is integral part of the review and one of the sections I really enjoy.

Being honest, this is something I have adapted around 6 months ago and I find it very insightful. Again, I am using another tool for this but I am intended to migrate this into Evernote for the same reason I explained earlier. I am not promoting Evernote, it is just one tool which I use a lot and have fallen in love with it. You may decide to review daily or weekly or at any other frequency.

Just to summarize, 5 methods for converting knowledge into wisdom are
1. Take Notes
2. Ask question to yourself or speculate
3. Discuss with a friend, mentor or colleague
4. Try it
5. Review

So let’s change the role and let me ask you.

“What other methods you know or used to convert knowledge into wisdom?” Please leave your comments and thoughts.

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ofriendragon

Senior Member

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put tomato in fruit salad.

Can «know» be used in progressive tense? What does it mean here?

Thanks in advance.

timpeac

Senior Member

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put tomato in fruit salad.

Can «know» be used in progressive tense? What does it mean here?

Thanks in advance.

Yes it’s fine (stylistically it’s not great to have «knowledge» being equated with «knowing» as you do in the first sentence, but it’s not grammatically wrong).

However, I don’t think that this is the progressive tense.

In «wisdom is knowing not to put tomato in fruit salad» this does not equate to «wisdom knows not to put tomato in fruit salad». It equates rather to «wisdom is to know not to put tomato in fruit salad».

In other words «wisdom» is not doing the verb. «Wisdom» is being equated with the verb. It answers the question «what is wisdom?» not «what does wisdom do?»

Cagey

post mod (English Only / Latin)

timpeac is right; this is not the progressive tense.

Knowing here is a gerund; that is, it is a verbal form used as a noun. As timpeac points out, it is equivalent to to know, another verbal noun.

spodulike

Senior Member

Yes it’s fine (stylistically it’s not great to have «knowledge» being equated with «knowing» as you do in the first sentence, but it’s not grammatically wrong).

However, I don’t think that this is the progressive tense.

In «wisdom is knowing not to put tomato in fruit salad» this does not equate to «wisdom knows not to put tomato in fruit salad». It equates rather to «wisdom is to know not to put tomato in fruit salad».

In other words «wisdom» is not doing the verb. «Wisdom» is being equated with the verb. It answers the question «what is wisdom?» not «what does wisdom do?»

I agree; It’s a kind of humorous definition:

The definition of Knowledge is: «knowing that a tomato is a fruit»
The definition of Wisdom is: «knowing not to put tomato in fruit salad»

Equally valid would be:

The definition of Knowledge is: «to know that a tomato is a fruit»
The definition of Wisdom is: » to know that (it is) not (appropriate) to put tomato in fruit salad»