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The more I learn the more ignorant I'm. Or not?

2007-07-31 15:36:38 · 17 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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To discover that knowledge itself is infinite, it is not that the more you learn the more ignorant you become; quite the contraire, one must always search new ways to learn and seek for new ideas waiting to be discovered. Once this is discovered, the voyage throughout this knowledge will keep a person searching for new thoughts, to progress, all this in order to combat ignorance. However, this will not expose itself automatically to a person, one must attempt to reach them, and all the processes involved in this path keeps a person busy, learning, ergo avoiding ignorance.

2007-07-31 17:06:52 · answer #1 · answered by lockshot 2 · 1 0

Ignorance is the state of not knowing something. Ignorance is common. Its unavoidable and in a complex society its increasingly difficult to not be ignorant.
Imagine the early hominids. You gotta know what plants and critters are good to eat etc. Get a grasp on the weather,hunting basic cultivating and yaaa you got it under control.
What the aphorism is stating is that you are actually getting wise enough to recognize how little you know.

2007-08-01 10:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Shakespeare expressed a similar sentiment: "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."* Most would answer that the cure for ignorance is knowledge, but the real cure is wisdom.

Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister
— Unknown

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
— Alexander Graham Bell

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an a-ss
— Japanese Proverb

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
— Jimi Hendrix

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
— Isaac Asimov

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
— Michel Montaigne (1533-1592)

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
— Hermann Hesse

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age
— Proverb

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
— William Cowper

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Sandra Carey

The only source of knowledge is experience.
—Confucius

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience . . . well that comes from poor judgment.
— Rita Mae Brown

2007-08-01 03:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 1 0

The more you learn the more you come to realize how little you actually know. The only cure is to continue to learn.

2007-07-31 22:49:39 · answer #4 · answered by Jeramey 2 · 2 0

Knowledge

2007-08-01 01:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by Tucker 2 · 0 0

The more you learn the less you've got an excuse to stay ignorant.

2007-07-31 22:40:06 · answer #6 · answered by Sanman 2 · 0 0

It is education from living and learning from your mistakes,and from being able to take the advice from those who have lived longer than you, with enough insight to learn from it. It is wanting to learn, the burning desire to keep your head out of the sand.
Lifes experiencs is wisdom that is aged, with knowldge that must be given to those who ask for it, when called upon to do so.

2007-07-31 23:01:34 · answer #7 · answered by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2 · 1 0

We are all ignorant. It is a no "win" situation. No one has all the knowledge of all the books of all the libraries of this planet past and present. Ignorance and intelligence are just labels that we use to satisfy our emotions.

2007-08-01 00:54:31 · answer #8 · answered by guru 7 · 1 1

One of the best ways to cure ignorance is to put down your book of holy scriptures and learn something factual for a change...

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2007-08-01 03:15:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Reality.

2007-07-31 22:40:57 · answer #10 · answered by DEPRESSED™ 3 · 2 0

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