WHAT DO I KNOW?

We often hear people around us say: "I know, I know, I know", and they always repeat it three times.Who do they think they are to make the world believe that they know everything, while we are ignorant? What do they know about knowledge? Do they know that knowledge means knowing and being informed? Do they really know everything?

 

By the way, knowing is the sum total of knowledge acquired through learning or experience. Do they have the skills to know how to do things, or the education to know how to live? I doubt it.
I wanted to know more about knowledge, so I searched the world's proverbs to find out what they had to say about it: Persian says: "Knowledge is a crown on the head, while wealth is only a yoke on the neck". The same Persian adds: "Ignorance is death, knowledge is life". The Chinese is a little more complicated: "Knowledge is not difficult, only putting it into practice is".

What better investment than knowledge? I would add that knowledge is what makes us grow. I fear, however, that we are being educated to believe rather than to know. Belief can be manipulated. I dare to believe that knowledge keeps us away from incomprehension. In my case, I read a lot, and when people ask me why, my answer is the same. To know. Knowledge, science and philosophy are all within our reach, so why not take advantage of them? These elements are converted into know-how and savoir-vivre.

I've often asked myself the question: "What do I know?" and always got the same answer: NOTHING, or so little... as the saying goes: "the more you know, the more you know that you don't know". Our lives won't be enough to teach us everything, and we'll all leave a little ignorant.

We can imagine that we can love without knowing. It's like the child who loves his mother. It's the same when we obey without knowing it. It's as natural as living. The case is similar for a good student, who studies without knowing. And what about politicians? According to John Maynard Keynes, "they unknowingly apply the recommendations of economists who are often long dead and whose names they ignore".

I realize that while I revere knowledge, I sometimes question it. A wonderful saying by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the famous oceanographer, comes to mind: "Happiness for a bee or a dolphin is to exist. For man, it's knowing it and marvelling at it.