Knowledge → Understanding → Wisdom → Generated Result

  1. Knowledge: Available information that constitutes the potential knowledge that may be gathered, processed, understood, and acted upon by individuals.
  2. Understanding: Decision-making processes that take place in the mind and are chosen by each individual based on available information or knowledge.
  3. Wisdom: Each individual's behavior (action taken) is based on the quality of their decision-making processes, which, in turn, are based upon the quality of their available information.
  4. Generated Result: The quality of the condition that manifests in any society is based on the aggregate quality of human behavior within that society.