a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. agree or disagree?

Question

please explain your answer

Answer 1

A little of the wrong knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A little of the right knowledge can be usefull. We all only have a little knowledge an almost any topic, even if we're so-called experts.
The greatest knowledge anyone can have is that we all have a lot more to learn.

Answer 2

That's the most stupid thing ever written. Firstly, self-help books do not constitute knowledge, but science book made by psychologist, which might help you do the same thing correctly, may be helpful. Secondly, you're always better knowing what's a problem and why it is a problem if you want to fix it. Stupid people go on about how it's potentially harmful, but it never is, precisely because knowledge gives you a chance to know to which degree it is healthy to bear concerns, when and how you should give it a go and stop bothering, why you may be avoiding pointlessly banal things, etc. Science never fails as much as your impressions and a formal understanding of things is the only ability that stands between you and the others, the only thing which may grant you the privilege to have any kind of power over your existence. People who do not understand theories are intellectual slaves to everything: their emotions, the fallacious speech and rhetoric of blind-sided orators, their impressions, their own logical mistakes, their convictions, dogmas of whatever kind... without that higher, theoretical mastery, you are bound to never be able to choose and construct the principles in themselves, never able to guide your existence because you are bounded to stick to a framework on the sole basis someone told you so and never able to really know anything at all: all you will have is the ability to process the method, but never that of being critical of the principles and of ultimately choosing what you may want. Theories are what makes free men, free, to the extent that it is humanly possible. Everybody who fails to recognize this is a puppet, a slave, to those who, unlike them, understood and now dictate what's the line to follow. If you read a book and it's openly unsustainable empirically or theoretically self-contradictory, then it's not knowledge you have in your hands. Those books can be dangerous, but if you're at the formal stage of cognition as Piaget depicted it, then you have nothing to worry about: you are sufficiently competent to tell when a book is an intellectual parody and when a book is about science.

Answer 3

Absolutely not at all - except in certain cases.

I believe that a little knowledge increases the desire to learn more.
A little knowledge helps a person know how to find the answers.

Knowledge would be very dangerous if a doctor like a surgeon had too little of it and went right out to do heart surgery.

A little knowledge would be especially dangerous if you went out driving a car with too little knowledge of the meaning of signs, the rules of driving, and how to drive.

Answer 4

depends on the person that has this "little knowledge". if they are aware of the fact that they do not have all the information and can apply appropriate amounts of caution then a little knowledge can be fine. However some people know just enough on a subject to think they are an expert and therefore take unneccessary risks. my dad knows just enough about electrical work to be a danger to himself. thinks he can fix anything, this is not the case.

Answer 5

DISAGREE! Anything that constitutes "a little knowledge" is not NECESSARILY "a dangerous thing." Certainly, a little knowledge CAN be a dangerous thing, but it is not always true. There is no propertly of "a little knowledge" that necessitates danger. Consider, "I think, therefore I am" ("cognito ergo sum" - Descartes), the phrase states that if you think, you MUST exist. Knowing that you exist is not dangerous. Therefore, since the knowledge that you exist because you think does not danger anyone, your thesis is false.

Answer 6

Knowledge leads to truth. A lack of knowledge is a dangerous things. Knowledge helps you to acquire of wisdom, which helps you live your live better with less problems. So knowledge is the best way to safeguard yourself in this world.

Answer 7

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing if you are basing your life on it. Like religion...many people are blind followers..they have not read the holy book of that religion and have not researched thoroughly.

Answer 8

--This is especially so when it comes to human relationships. Many a good friendship has been ruined because of half-truths said about a person or a situation.

--In science, if one knows little about radium ,then he could be very carless as to its danger.

--In medical treatment, blood would appear to be life-saving in transfusions ----but indeed blood is a very complicated substance that cannot be mishandled and misused, when it is there are consequences that are many. Taking blood has been likened to playing Russian Roulette.

--Steroids in some medical treatments have their place, but to not know what they can do to those who abuse the use, could bring about death.

Answer 9

I agree. Adam and Eve, after eating the forbidden fruit, acquired a little knowledge, and because of that, they were sent out of Eden for good.

Answer 10

It depends on the knowledge and what it applies to. I taught flying and knowing how to get the plane up and down was not enough to keep you alive.