Einstein put it this way
Einstein put it this way: "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."
— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk) · Art of the Good Life: Clear Thinking for Business and a Better Life by Rolf Dobelli
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Knowledge is information; wisdom is the practical skill of navigating an actual life, the capacity for judging rightly in matters of conduct. Einstein drew the line in a single stroke: a clever person solves a problem, but a wise person avoids it. You do not receive wisdom as a gift handed down — you must discover it for yourself, after a journey no one else can take for you; that is why its beginning is humility, and why in the end it is not study but practice that is the main thing. — The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)
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