The more you learn the less you know~?

Question

what wisdom can be derived from these simple words?

Answer 1

All wisdom can be derived from these words.

Once you understand this it is the beginning of true wisdom.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

This quote reminds me of Socrates' quote " True knowledge comes in knowing that you know nothing''. He also said that he is intelligent(possesses the faculty) because he knows that he knows nothing. In fact Socrates said that his intelligence is what led him to know that he knows nothing. What that basically means is the the more you learn the more you realize that you lack knowledge. I believe Socrates realized that the world is constantly changing and it has existed long before his birth and is likely to exist long after and with our finite intelligence the there is no way for us to comprehend everything, we'll never be able to know everything that could be known. So due to our finite intelligences what we know is pretty much nothing compared to what could be known.

Answer 3

very true statement. the more you learn, the more you realize that there is always more to what ever it is that you have learned. and you come to the conclusion that in fact you really don't know. the more you learn the less you don't know and understand.

Answer 4

the more u explore the more u delve inside and hence the pool of knowledge is vast and so the exploration.

Answer 5

Not a lot. Knowledge is power.

Answer 6

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Answer 7

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Answer 8

On the path of learning each new insight opens many other doors and paths to horizons unventured and unexplored. Mans imagination is broadened and he embarks upon a new route further to the roads he has travelled learning new facts and data.

If he reads an entire encyclopaedia collection from end to end he cannot learn more than his personal truth. He is born to be free, to overcome the barriers of ingrained fear, hatred and intolerance that ignorance and adverse experience may have emotionally scarred him with.

That is his end and ultimate objective, how he reaches that peace an understanding is determined by his enterprise and ingenuity and partly by fate.

Answer 9

Ah! A very Psyche 101 question! This statement is a good way to get people to think back at what they've learned in their own lives. Just think, as a 5 year old child, you thought you knew 95% of everything you needed to get by in the world. Then you go to school and with each passing year you find out a tiny but about a lot of things! You realize that there is sooo much that you don't know. From a society standpoint, people with little or no education are usually very sure of what they "know". Whereas, people of higher education are often heard saying that they aren't so bright. An educated person gets an immersion into many more topics than most others, and with each new topic they realize that there is so much more that they can/will never know. The undereducated person rarely ventures into new areas so they become experts in what little they do know and this gives them a false feeling of knowing more than others. These undereducated types usually "know" that there are ghosts, Spacemen, Bigfoot, and so on. And when you hear them speaking of such things they will be heard calling educated people idiots because they don't believe the same things they themselves believe in. So the reverse of the statement serves as a "proof"..The less you learn, the more you "know".

Answer 10

I guess that would be to do with the "EGO" and how it may effect your powerful mind

Love & Blessings

Milly

Answer 11

I think there are two types of knowledge -- one being wisdom, and the other being book smart. I personally think that it is more important to wise. Book smarts can introduce you to wisdom but only experience itself truly teaches.  

Answer 12

That kids have an easier time learning because they don't have as rigid and full minds?

But otherwise, i agree with the first answer.

Answer 13

As I grow older, I learn more and more how incorrect much of what I was taught really was.  I think about 90% of everything I "knew" after High School has turned out to be false.  

I've begun to suspect that the statistic hasn't changed for me, either.  

Answer 14

This phrase does not means that knowledge is not power or not useful as some people suggested, it mean that the more knowledge you obtain the more you will be aware of your own ignorance.

Similar to "The only thing I know is that I know nothing"

Answer 15

bliss is a state of mind cant easily achieved wisdom is power.

Answer 16

it's to explain a from where you began to be busy with getting things stuffed into your brain and forgotten the right purpose. there goes the knowledge you seek which isn't for real wisdom anymore, but for ego, pride and self-righteous which will end you up to misuse it.  

Answer 17

Obviously not much if you're still asking questions. Get over it and go back to work, the office needs you

Answer 18

the more you know the more you discover how ignorant you were.

Answer 19

The saying means that the more you learn, the more you become aware of all that you don't know, and that is considered to be the beginning of true wisdom. Only a fool says, I know it all.  

Answer 20

...none...the individual decides their own choices in LIFE...to make it better...tomorrow...

Answer 21

Because every answer brings 2 more questions. The more you learn, the more you are aware of all the possibilities and the endless questions that exist.