What is knowledge?

Question

and how do we come to achieve it?

Answer 1

All I know is that I know nothing.
He who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.

Answer 2

There are many ways to look at one constitutes knowledge. One way is through use of Language. One makes a proposition (a sentence) and when a sentence matches the reality, then one can be said to have a knowledge. In short, it can be a matching game.

If you reduce knowledge to purely memories or some sort, then by definition, what's in your head so to speak is your knowledge.

As to the question of how we come to achieve it; that's a very hard question. No mechanical process seems to provide an adequate answer to that unless you are willing to settle with an answer a neuro-physiologist usually gives.

Answer 3

What we achieve is wisdom out of knowledge... !
We acquire knowledge, not achieve it.
Knowledge is just processed information , again a meaningful data, waiting to be observed by an intelligent person to draw conclusions from !

Answer 4

Knowledge is the sum of your thoughts and expiriences. You achieve it by thinking and expirienceing. Knowledge is a loose term in it's own way, like many words. Knowledge is power, but what is knowledge if no one understands you, is knowledge now powerless?

Answer 5

Knowledge is a bunch of information that is told to you, or that you can find out through mediums like books, tv, other people, pictures and school, different from wisdom in that wisdom is gained through experience. Wisdom is always useful. Knowledge is rarely.

Answer 6

Knowledge is something that goes beyond being an asset to our own personal lives. It is something that benefits the world of people.

I believe we achieve it by truly wanting it. It is then that we seek it.

Answer 7

Knowledge is the accumulation of facts (or, if you would excuse the redundancy, it is what you know). Discerning and understanding facts though, requires wisdom. Knowledge comes about by learning, where as, wisdom comes about from experience.

Answer 8

Strictly speaking, knowledge is something in your head, so you can’t “manage” it in any traditional sense. In knowledge-management circles, knowledge may refer to recorded information (perhaps optimized for effective communication) or to internalized information (“know-how” or tacit knowledge) that is very difficult or impossible to record and communicate completely. In other words, the term knowledge is used very loosely. Don’t worry about it. Just focus on how you represent and communicate information that contributes to greater creativity, opening new opportunity, or improving productivity.

Answer 9

From our past experiences, we are getting somthings are correct and somethins are incorrect. when we are in present activities we should be apply the (past experiences) getting things correct or incorrect is knowledge.
Simply we can say the presense of mind is knowledge.

Answer 10

The fact of knowing something is Knowledge.
By many means.First from mother and father, brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends, teachers and professors, colleagues and research guides, From books magazines, news paper and visual media and finally by self observation and deductive logic

Answer 11

The simplest way I can put it-
Knowledge is the stored memory that can be taught to others