Precis Writing on Knowledge vs Wisdom

Make a precis of each of the following passages. The precis should be as far as possible in your own words. Suggest a suitable title also for your precis.

Although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge yet there has been no correlative increase in wisdom. The agreement between the two ceases as soon as we attempt to define ‘wisdom’ and consider means of promoting it. I want to ask first what wisdom is and then what can be done to teach it.
There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of these, I should put first a sense of proportion the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of techniques.
Suppose, for example that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your intellectual energy. You have no time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say) as modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and America but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the most populous parts of the world.
To take an even more spectacular example, which is in everybody’s mind at the present time : You study the composition of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge and incidentally place in the hands of powerful lunatics the means of destroying the human race. In such ways the pursuit of knowledge may become harmful unless it is combined with wisdom and wisdom in the sense of comprehensive vision is not necessarily present in specialist in the pursuit of knowledge.
Comprehensiveness alone, however, is not enough to constitute wisdom. There must be also, a certain awareness of the ends of human life. This may be illustrated by the study of history. Many eminent historians have done more harm than good because they viewed facts through the distorting medium of their own passions. Hegel had a philosophy of history which did not suffer from and lack of comprehensiveness, since it started from the earliest time and continued into an indefinite future. But the chief lesson of history which he sought to inculcate was that from the AD 400 down to his own time Germany had been the most important nation and the standard-bearer of progress in the world.
Perhaps, one could stretch the comprehensiveness that constitutes wisdom to include not only intellect but also feeling. It is by no means uncommon to find men whose knowledge is wide but whose feelings are narrow. Such men lack what I am calling wisdom.

Knowledge vs Wisdom

Our age is far ahead of previous ages in the matter of knowledge, but not so in case of wisdom. Wisdom means a sense of proportion. It further means to analyse a problem in the light of all the related factors. Comprehensiveness itself does not mean the ‘wisdom’. Technical knowledge about medicines and atomic energy does not bother about the far-reaching consequences of its use. So, there should be wisdom to control and guide the use of knowledge. Besides comprehensiveness, wisdom includes the awareness about the ends of our lives. The study of history well threw light on this point. Some historians distorted the facts of history because of their personal passion and interest. Indifferently pursuing for acquiring the knowledge may result in its misuse , if used by a man having no wisdom. A man with wide knowledge but no feelings is a man without wisdom.