"Human wisdom has little or no value"
The last days of Socrates
Plato
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| "So I made myself spokesman for the oracle, and asked myself whether I would rather be as I was - neither wise with their wisdom nor stupid with their stupidity - or posses both qualities as they did. I replied through myself to the oracle that it was best for me to be as I was." "Human wisdom has little or no value" The last days of Socrates Plato |
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| Respect for ones knowledge strengthens when it is simple and easily identifiable. When one achieves success it is due to the lack of greater abilities and knowledge. The general public desires easily understood characters with lack of depth. When the masters of refined knowledge attempt to expand themselves they lose the interest of the general public. The philosophers however learn themselves into obscurity. Few people have interest in great minds unless they can refine an aspect of the wisdom. To gain respect one must aquire great stupidity. To eliminate stupidity eliminates respect. | ||||||||||||
| To achieve the satisfaction of knowledge, knowledge must first be an alien experience to the learner. As one becomes accustomed to expanded knowledge it becomes harder to identify the value of single wisdom. It is the value of the wisdom that generates the satisfaction in ones attained knowledge. The broader the knowledge base achieved, the less value in singular knowledge. The pursuers of broad based knowledge can have equal or greater knowledge than the refined mind yet they receive less recognition for lack of easy identification. | ||||||||||||
| The knowledge that you feel you have is based entirely on the value that you place on a specific topic of knowledge. The more you expand your knowledge base, the less likely you are to find importance in a specific knowledge. The less you have in knowledge base the greater satisfaction in knowledge achieved due to the lack of higher awareness of other knowledge. You can only be happy with intelligence if you have no knowledge of anything more existing. | ||||||||||||