Experience may add to our knowledge, may not too! Knowledge when not associated with experience can have a manifestation different from the one that has been experienced! Experience when gathered with the knowledge of the experience itself lends wisdom or maturity. -Briefly my musings.
What do you think?

This should be under philosophy my friend. I am thinking about this before I answer..

Very much agreed.

Lolz my knowledge of philosophy is ZERO

@RockGnome: I'll appreciate if you share your own opinion too...

@Ladywind: Now that you got me into this philosophy class you gotta share your views....

Aw, Kevin. My brain is numb from the polar winds we have here. I am bent on survival and using my energy for that.
I promise tomorrow I will post.

If you have ever watched kitchen nightmares or bar rescue or something similar where they go in and turn a business around you would see that often times people with knowledge, experience, and wisdom get trapped in a box of disfunction that leads to failure of their business and life. While someone looking in from outside the box can often easily see what the problems are and how to fix them.

Sears and Robuck was as powerful as Amazon is today at one time. Now they are bankrupt. Not being willing to change, along with greed, laziness, and selfishness can lead to failure. Having maturity can be a draw back, that is why many of the tech companies are hiring young people. We have gotten to where we are at from taking chances, thinking outside the box, not from playing it safe due to past experience. Yes, this can lead to failure, but it can also lead to successful new ideas.

Many government's get trapped in the same way. We elect new law makers with great ideas but in a short period of time they fall into the same routine of spending money while wasting time working on stupid legislation that just leads to more disfunction. So people who think they have wisdom and experience are often just trapped in their box and don't see what is going on around them. We need people who can think outside the box even if they do not have knowledge of what they are looking at because those are the people who have the ability to come up with some really great things.

@dust4fun: I admit and appreciate your views. By experience, knowledge and maturity I didn't mean anything in stagnation. Rather they are dynamic and basically dialect in nature. In your observation you have mentioned the phrase "thinking out of the box" which also relates to past experience, absorbs it and then negates. This is precisely what I say is knowledge borne out of experience.
Thank you

I think that age wisdom and maturity add up to..

we've done most of the stupid stuff already and now we get to watch the whole pantomime enacted by eager amateurs struggling with the lines, while we just make em up as we go along.

a true statement though.

Knowledge gained experiencially is of a different quality than knowledge gained from an outside source. but it is fair to say that knowledge of the experience adds to the quality of the experience, and by extension the quality of the potential wisdom to be understood.

which is the same thing in different words I guess

Intelligence is the ability to gain knowledge from the stimuli/experiences we have. It allows us to understand which knowledge is beneficial and which is useless.
Wisdom is the ability to use the correct intelligence/knowledge to make better decisions which effect our present and in turn, effect our future.

Ignorance is the lack of understanding. One can be intelligent yet, ignorant of important conditions which affect the wisdom. Its why we sometimes make the wrong decisions. We didn't know what we needed to know to make the best decision.

In life, there are things you must understand, things you want to understand and things in which understanding is insignificant.
Intelligence allows you to sort these things to better influence your present and future self.

My opinion?

One can gain knowledge via books, or verbal stories.
Yet, lack the experience to fully understand the
workings of what they've learned.

One can gain experience, yet lack the knowledge to
best utilize the lesson learned.

Knowledge plus experience, create the opportunity
to gain wisdom.

the journey to wisdom is much more complicated (just ask yoda ) it requires moral strength , awareness , acceptance , critical thinking and the ability to see beyond self . Perhaps that is what you implied by “knowledge of experience ) . Knowledge and experience combined do not necessarily result in wisdom / maturity

Very good Tom, I agree and would just add that personally I'm glad I learned fairly young to recognize what I knew but also what I didn't know.

Maturity is the ability to make rational decisions despite emotional insecurities. To do whjat needs to be done even when ya don't wanna.

If you keep making the same mistakes over and over again, you are obviously not learning the wisdom from your experiences.
Take stock of your life and choose to make better decisions.