WISDOM

T.S. Eliot makes an accurate distinction between information, knowledge, and wisdom. Being equipped with all the information is very good, because if we filter it and order it judiciously, we can achieve knowledge. Today we have more sources of information than ever thanks to information technology resources. According to T.S. Eliot, after information and knowledge comes wisdom. Because once we know a great amount of things relating to a particular subject, we surely could take one step further, we should attain something more. If we are to do things in the best possible way in life, in all fields, including architecture, we should try to approach wisdom; we should try to be wise. This involves not only having all the information, developing it, and acquiring knowledge, but above all, on attaining that wisdom, employing study and discernment to make it the best, or better than the best.