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[Ruby Moon]

Some people said knowledge is dangerous. Some others said knowledge can ruin your life. For others it's one of the most precious things in the whole world and they spend the greatest part of their lives trying to achieve it.

What's the real price of knowledge? It would be better to live a peaceful life ignoring everything or almost everything, or it would be better to follow the road that brings to knowledge (I'm not talking of mere culture here) anyway?

[BlackThornn]

The price of knowledge is usually cynicism.

In my experience the smarter and more knowledgeable about the world someone is the more pessimistic and cynical they are.

Another price might be peace of mind.. someone walking around knowing everything about how quickly the world situation is heating up and just how much suffering there is is much less happy than the joe nobody meandering about blissfully unaware of how bad things are.

[Miki]

Originally posted by BlackThornn


In my experience the smarter and more knowledgeable about the world someone is the more pessimistic and cynical they are.

I completely agree with this statement, but better being pessimistic than being ignorant, I suppose! At least you can judge things with your own head!

[kupoartist]

Originally posted by Miki
better being pessimistic than being ignorant, I suppose!

I agree there. Perhaps there are things we shouldn't know (like how to make explosives, and the best way to kill someone with an ice-pick : no I don't know either of them ), but we have to know some things, otherwise our ignorance makes others suffer at the other end of the scale (instead of blowing peeps up, we just let others die of starvation instead)

[Lost_myth]

Depends on what degree of knowledge we are talking about here.

The kind that can take away the world's faith?

A degree in a certain area, for example math?

Or you can answer just about any question from the top of your head?



To me knowledge is not how much you know but what you do when you don't know.

[Hylas]

Conquering knowledge to me means to conquer consciousness. It gives you more freedom.
The price of it is getting to know also things you wouldn't like to know

[Frozen]

Knowledge is priceless. Or put in other words, an unaffordable price. What we call "knowledge" is nothing but a mere blink of what knowledge really is on it's wholeness. Our human minds are too limited and restricted to accept the wholeness of knowledge. Moreover, knowledge itself is of no use. It must be always accompined by wisdom. My thoughts towards wisdome are exactly the same as for knowledge. What we considre wisdom and knowledge are insignificant "quatinties" of each comparing them to what they are in their truth.

So no matter how much stuff we know, there's still an unimaginable quantity of other thigns we will never know about.

But as Pamela said, only the "wise" "know" what to do reagarding the unknown.

[Cannibal Clown]

I personally would love top have a surplus of knowlege, of pretty much anything. I don't think it would make me any less happy. I mean, so what if i finally understand everything about the world. That doesn't mean i can't have my own sence of humor and happyness. But a bit of wiseness would be kinda cool. To actually be usefull in the world.

[Pu the Owl]

Originally posted by Frozen
But as Pamela said, only the "wise" "know" what to do reagarding the unknown.

Reminded me of the famous quote by Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance

Ah, yes...

[Darkness 4 Hire]

" The people who understand nothing, know nothing!" I go with that if you don't listen to other peoples problems then you know nothing. SO you cant be hurt or dumbend by there problems!

[Frozen]

Originally posted by Fortune


Reminded me of the famous quote by Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance

Ah, yes...

Indeed, I was thinking about that and I was going to put that quote, but first, I did not know it in English (I would say " I only know that I know nothing") and second, It would sound kinda nerdish

DH4, I didn't understand very weel what you said. you mena that if you tell me about a problem of yours, and I don't understand it, then I know nothin?

[Pu the Owl]

Originally posted by Frozen


Indeed, I was thinking about that and I was going to put that quote, but first, I did not know it in English (I would say " I only know that I know nothing") and second, It would sound kinda nerdish

I'm a nerd then!

*cries and runs away*

[Frozen]

Originally posted by Fortune


I'm a nerd then!

*cries and runs away*

*runs behind Fortune, all embarrased*

No no no! I did not mean that. It was just by the whole way I made that post. It was all written all kinda philosophically and stuff. So putting the quote of a philosopher would make it more "philosophical nerdish" I dunno.

I'm a dork, sorry

[Ninja]

knowledge can b a bad thing. Take my bro for example, he thinks he knows everything about computers, and he makes other people feel bad when they don't know something about pcs. he tell them stuff like"You Idiot thats so easy" nad stuff like dat

that is y knowledge can b a bad thing

[Lost_myth]

I agree with you. People with knowledge shouldn't put down other people just because they don't know something that may be so simple/basic to them.

Knowledge can be a good thing to like medicine and technology.

[Frozen]

Originally posted by {X}
knowledge can b a bad thing. Take my bro for example, he thinks he knows everything about computers, and he makes other people feel bad when they don't know something about pcs. he tell them stuff like"You Idiot thats so easy" nad stuff like dat

that is y knowledge can b a bad thing

I mean no offense to your bro, but that's actually showing he foolish way in which people act when they think they "know" about something, when they really don't know anything compared to what knowledge means. Knwoledge itself is not good or bad, it's appliances are the ones that can be either good or bad.