is it as you say?

Submitted by mz ravin black (United States), Jun 27, 2008 at 14:34

i read your comments and have thought about it for a couple of days...one thought is not to comment because my comments will someday be a part of a book...but i will address some issues with you...

knowledge is just a lot of information...

"Liberty of Speech inviteth and provoketh liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge."

Francis Bacon: Advancement of Learning

"There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certian, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience."

Roger Bacon: Opus Majus, trans. by R.B. Burke, 1928

wisdom which King Soloman was a great master of...

"Wisdom is one thing. It is to know the thought by which all things are steered through all things." Heraclitus: Burnet, Early Greek Philosphy, 1908

"The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity." Samuel Johnson: The Rambler.

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment." George Santayan: Reason in Common Senses

"If Carlyle could define a university as a collection of books, Socrates might have defined it as a conversation about wisdom". Alfred Whitney Griswold: Essays on Education.

"The beginning of wisdom is the defination of terms." Socrates

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