2006-09-23 22:50:34 · 7 answers · asked by Raptor 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I'm in my 50's and doing a lot of reading, etc. ( the seventeen thing was kind of a joke. It was 18)
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2006-09-23 22:54:29 · update #1
funny thing is, i think the answer is because you know more now. when you were young many of your beliefs went uncontested, so it was easy to say you knew what you were talking about. as you grew older and your world expanded, you encountered people, experiences, situations you had never imagined. these did not always mesh with what you knew, so you had to tear down many of your ideas and beliefs to try to build new ones that included this new world.
i think knowledge lies in understanding that we do not have concrete answers for anything.
2006-09-24 06:56:16 · answer #1 · answered by deviosity 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey I thought I knew it all at 17 too. I'm 29 now and I only wish I could go back and apply that. But at the same time now things in life become more difficult but I know from everything I've learned that I can over come anything.
I should be in prison. Love of people didn't put me there. I'am the best person I can be every day of my life because I've learned how small I am and how big the world is around me.
2006-09-24 05:57:00 · answer #2 · answered by Brad B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's interesting how that happens isn't it? When we're teenagers we think adults are just old and don't know what they're talking about. Then as we start to get older we realize alot of times how right our parents were and how little we actually knew. I think it will be like that always. I guess that's why they say with age comes experience and nothing takes the place of experience.
2006-09-24 05:54:54 · answer #3 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes knowledge to understand what we don't know. For example, you don't truly know what blindness is unless you have experienced vision.
2006-09-24 05:52:41 · answer #4 · answered by AnswerBlaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all thought we knew everything as teens...Live and learn!!!
2006-09-24 05:58:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Socrates said it best;
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
2006-09-24 05:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by ModerndayMadman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wisest is she who knows she does not no!
2006-09-24 05:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by Bebe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋