KNOWLEDGE
IS EVERYWHERE
Dictionaries define knowledge as the
information, understanding, and skills that one gains through education or
experience.
Briefly speaking, the sources of
knowledge are unlimited and the amount of knowledge is immeasurable.
The truth is that there is knowledge
everywhere and about a number of things existing there.
Schools, colleges, universities, specific
institutes, fields, farms, mines, rivers, mountains, valleys and religious places are not the only limited places for acquiring knowledge.
Jaques, a character in Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, Act II, Scene 1 says:
And this our life, exempt from public
haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running books, sermons in stones,
and good in everything.
According
to the English essayist and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626): Knowledge is
not a couch whereon to rest a searching mind and restless spirit; or a terrace
for a wandering mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state
for a proud mind to raise itself upon;
or a sort of commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit
and sale; but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of
man’s estate.
A number of thinkers rightly claim that
knowledge is power
Finally, this quote by the Scottish essayist
and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) : “Properly, there is no other
knowledge but that which is got by
working; the rest is yet all a hypothesis of knowledge; a thing to be argued of
in schools; a thing floating in the clouds, in endless logic-vortices, till we
try and fix it.
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G. R. Kanwal
27 April 2025
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