§Knowledge

Knowledge can mean:

From Wikipedia:
Knowledge means the things which are true, as opposed to opinion. Correct information is knowledge.
Knowledge can always be supported by evidence. If a statement is not supported by evidence, then it’s not knowledge. The evidence makes it justified.

To get to the opposite of knowledge, the steps are: censorship, disinformation or ignorance -> incomplete understanding and confusion.

Knowledge in religion is different in that it depends on faith, belief and the authority of religious leaders, not on evidence of a scientific or legal kind.

Quotes

Knowledge is your sword and bow, your armor and shield.

Everyone you’ll ever meet knows something you don’t.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Some people know everything and that’s all that they will ever know…

Tot ce ştiu e că nu ştiu nimic, dar nici de asta nu sunt prea sigur căci atunci înseamnă că aş şti ceva!

Knowledge is good
Most people, given the option of knowing something and not knowing something, will choose to have more information rather than less. Wars have been won and lost over who was better-informed. This is because being better-informed allows us to make better decisions, and generally improve our ability to survive and be successful.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
– US President James Madison

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.
– Plato

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
– Edward Everett

The only good is knowledge.
The only evil is ignorance.
– Herodot

Anyone who is forced from his own course, either through not understanding himself, or through external imposition, comes into conflict with the order of the Universe, and suffers accordingly.
– Aleister Crowley

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
– Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
– Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
– Plato, The Republic

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
– Karl Popper

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
– Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: the power of thinking without thinking

People will cease to commit atrocities when they cease to believe absurdities.
– Voltaire

The educated person is someone who knows how to find out what he does not know.
– George Simmel

You don’t need to know absolutely everything to know everything you need.
– Danny Zeck

You don’t have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.
– John Brunner

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
– Vernon Howard

The more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don’t know.
Uncertainty removes our judgments of others; it preempts the unnecessary stereotyping and biases that we otherwise feel when we see somebody on TV, in the office, or on the street. Uncertainty also relieves us of our judgment of ourselves.
We don’t know if we’re lovable or not; we don’t know how attractive we are; we don’t know how successful we could potentially become. The only way to achieve these things is to remain uncertain of them and be open to finding them out through experience.
– Mark Manson, The subtle art of not giving a F*ck

Willful ignorance in the presence of Knowledge is the measure of a bad person.
– Mark Passio

Anything is about everything. Information is fractal.
Learning about Photography means you’re also learning about Yoga.

Articles

https://johnwilliams.blog/post/how-to-create-knowledge

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