I believe in loving myself for who I am, as well as keeping an uncluttered mind to the world and all it has to offer. Enjoying the little things in life, never giving up on dreams and hopes, and giving everything 100% percent are objectives I tend to live by day to day. Love, happiness, and knowledge are all crucial to living a jubilant life. Knowledge is power. With knowledge, you indeed have power over things. How you apply knowledge to life determines the type of power you have. Knowledge is the grease and fuel for a machine, without the two nothing can be done. As we seek knowledge, our minds are searching and roving to grasp concepts to keep us educated. The first step is acquiring knowledge. According to philosophers there are two ways as to acquiring knowledge. Those two ways are through reason, and through sense experience. An individual first inquires knowledge through his/her own mind and logic. We as individuals must ask ourselves do we possess any knowledge. Of course, there are things we all attain information on, but how did we attain it? Epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge, examines how we seem to know things. How we attain knowledge is a mind boggling question. Philosophers have been attempting to come up with and search for an answer for decades. We value knowledge simply because it aids us in succeeding and reaching our goals as humans. Yet, knowledge helps us to learn of the world and how to live in it. When you begin to educate yourself, you learn new things that others aren’t aware of. When you have the upper hand on things you tend to make better decisions, as well as create more intelligent thoughts to improve your life. As you improve your life, knowledge gives the power to give off knowledg...
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... put together individual obtains knowledge gracefully through everyday conversations, actions, and thoughts. Socrates once said, “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing”. I disagree with this quote and statement. I believe that being aware of the fact that you know little is nothing to be humiliated of. This marks the beginning of a learning experience. Being aware of knowledge and its importance is certainly a necessity. Knowledge can never be taken away from an individual. Once thoughts, and new ideas and values develop into an individual’s mind it cannot be snatched. The way you view the world is your own deep perception. The more you learn about the world the more insight you have. These are building blocks to learning new things. Soon enough, you will realize that the continuous quest of knowledge is one of the pillars of your victory and bliss.
Knowledge helps people make conclusions, lets them be skillful, smart, and keeps them aware. People gather knowledge through experience, whether it's from school, mistakes, witnessing a situation, or trying new activities out. Including in “Fahrenheit 451”, the author, Ray Bradbury does an amazing job in explaining and describing to his audience of how society results in a setting without reasonable amounts of knowledge. People in the society of “Fahrenheit 451” begin to lose common sense after the books are prohibited to keep. In the novel 451 Ray Bradbury warns the audience that without knowledge people are manipulated easily. In reality knowledge is the key to surviving.
Aside from school or Universities, our world is a huge classroom. All of us learned things that are not taught in school, but there are some methods that we follow in order to simplify and to understand more regarding the task of different fields of knowledge. In our society today, most people learn by mimicking others and their actions that are influenced by past experiences. There is knowledge that is handed down from mouth to mouth generation that never committed in writing. When I think about knowledge, the first thing that comes up with my mind is education. Education requires self-determination, dedication, and experience. According to John Henry Newman’s philosophy of
So to say, knowledge can either make or break a person. It can act as a benefit, for power, or loss, for ignorance. “Do not take for granted what you know. Ask yourself how you know what you know; ask yourself whom it benefits, whom it hurts and why.” (Blackboard: Knowledge is Power)
Albert Einstein once said “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.” Knowledge can be good because it makes one successful. Then, it can also be very bad such as a criminal being too smart for the police, he or she can keep committing crime. Too much knowledge is dangerous because it may harm many, which means that many die or get scarred for life because of one simple guy with an excess of knowledge.
Throughout our lives, we 're told that knowledge is power. However, does knowledge alone achieve this? In the book, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, the main character, Tony, gains knowledge. In the beginning, he learns through his dependency on Adrian, his classmate. However, as he moves into his twenties, his learning stagnates. He 's peaceable to a point he seems spiritless but also too stubborn to change his original beliefs. It 's not until he wants to understand why Sarah, his ex-girlfriend 's mother, left him money and Adrian 's diary, that he actively pursues knowledge, helping him realize that his life may not be as black and white as he had thought. The evolution of Tony shows that a person needs to have an open mind in
Because of that phrase, I never take anything for granted. I know that with experience comes knowledge, even experiences in small everyday tasks. So, if someone were to overlook an event they went through or new information they received, they’d be missing out on a chance for more knowledge. Even though it takes hard work, when we as humans learn more, we only benefit in the end. Because of my enthusiasm to gain knowledge, I would be a positive addition to the current National Junior Honor Society.
People believe that they are “wise” when they “know” something. A common member of society most often feels that knowledge enables people to feel powerful and misknowledge shows a certain weakness. Thurman explained, “Being right means that the world affirms us in what we think we know. ‘Knowing’ something is a way of controlling it, being able to put it in its proper place in relation to us so that we can use it effectively… So, knowledge is power, in the sense that it empowers us to act successfully. Misknowledge… is weakness, in the sense that our action may fail in their aim, backfire, or have unintended consequences. Knowledge is security, in that we know our vulnerabilities and can avoid harm. Misknowledge is danger, in that we don 't know what others might do to us or what traps may await us. We therefore feel powerful and secure when were right, weak and vulnerable when were wrong” (Thurman 446). Thurman took a distinctive approach and taught that not knowing meant obtaining freedom and achieving wisdom. Thurman taught, “… the Buddha discovered that this most certain knowledge of the ‘self’ is actually ‘misknowledge’—a fundamental misunderstanding, a delusion. And what 's more, he realized that this discovery was the key to liberation, the gateway to enlightenment” (Thurman 447). From a social standpoint, “wisdom” allows people to obtain a certain knowledge of themselves and in this way, acquire freedom. Once this “wisdom” is gained, one becomes selfless and allows him or her self to be a greater part of
Our knowledge is a key to our success and happiness in our life to give us personal satisfaction. Knowledge is power but not always. Sometimes our self-awareness and growth as an individual gives us negative thoughts that make us want to go back to undo it. Everyone wants to unlearn a part in our life that brought us pain and problems. Good or bad experiences brought by true wisdom can be used for our self-acceptance, self-fulfillment and these experiences would make us stronger as we walk to the road of our so called “life”, but Douglas’s and my experience about knowledge confirmed his belief that “Knowledge is a curse”. Both of us felt frustrated and sad from learning knowledge.
Everything worth knowing can be taught by going out into the world and meeting new people and doing things that a person has not experienced for themselves. Oscar Wilde is right in certain circumstances, but he is also wrong. While valuable knowledge is not gotten from a textbook we have to get it somehow. Nobody is born knowing everything they do when they are at the end of their life, so if nothing worth knowing can be taught, how would anybody
In general, when people are learning, they achieve a state of understanding by learning something they consider they do not know. However, this common-sense contains a very irrational factor, that is, if a person have no idea about something exists, then for this person, that kind of things does not exist, hence the person will not emerges a desire to acquire that kind of things, then this person cannot behave like discovering or learning. If a person emerges a desire for something, that person must already know it sometime in the past in some way. Only in this way, it will make sense.
Real knowledge, like everything else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for”
Confucius believed that knowing oneself is the most important thing when concerning the apprehension of more knowledge. There is difference between knowing that something is not within comprehension and pretending that something is while actually believing that they actually comprehend it. There is primary ignorance is when an individual knows that they are ignorant to a certain thing. Then there is secondary ignorance, which is when an individual is so ignorant that they are not aware of their ignorance. This is the reason why knowing oneself is a vital part of having knowledge, if one is ignorant without knowing the knowledge received would not be of the higher level that humans are entitled to.
Knowledge is but understanding. How we indulge and interpret an issue is knowledge. In the pursuit of knowledge, we, as materialistic learners and knowers, repeatedly ignore crucial procedures, pro...
When I think about knowledge the first thing that comes to my mind is education. I believe that knowledge comes to people by their experiences in life. In other words, life is an instrument that leads me to gain knowledge. Many people consider that old people are wise because they have learned from good and bad experiences throughout their lives. Education requires work, dedication and faith to gain knowledge. We acquired knowledge through the guidance of from parents, role models, college/University teachers and life experiences.
...also makes me influential. So having a greater knowledge will help me tackle problems and overcome challenges..