We live with the results of our behavior especially in the sense that consequences have meaning for us and gain meaning for us. People are not static stimulus-response mechanisms. People come to new understandings of things and completely change. They grow in wisdom. Knowledge and intelligence are the accumulation of facts and the ability to process facts.
Wisdom is an understanding of the relatedness of facts and the consequences of behavior.
We learn and grow from experience. With experience we become less influenced by outside factors and more self directed. My three children all believed they were skillful drivers and would never have an accident. I knew that within a month or two behind the wheel each of them would have one. I knew this from statistics and from an appreciation of the skill required for driving that isn't gained from watching.