Truth is only valuable with knowledge. Otherwise, it's harmful.

in philosophy •  7 years ago 

Would you like to know the day of your death? Or how are you going to die? We always say that hard truth is better than comforting fantasy, but sometimes the best thing is nothing. I mean, knowing when you are going to die would only bring misery and fear to your life.


Sometimes we can only survive the attack by not understand that it is happening.

Same goes for everything else. Look at children for instance; whenever you tell them "no, you cannot do it," they will always do that thing, even when they know that it is wrong. But somehow, when you tell "You cannot do it because..." they listen very often. Why?

We don't need truth. We need the knowledge to support the truth.

Human beings are quite extraordinary creatures, but one thing is for sure - we are limited as hell. And whenever we find out something that we cannot explain or digest to be the truth, we just go crazy on ourselves. And that is why sometimes it is only wise to know as little as possible before we can move to another level.

We can build a house without fundamentals in one day, but a small breeze would crash it in no time. Of course, at first, it would look amazing... and yet, the house without fundamentals would only cause problems. The same rule applies to the truth. Whenever we find out too much than we can handle, we collapse.

Know your fundamentals and don't try to put on more weight on yourself than you can handle. Insanity is always waiting behind the corner.

So my little life's secret is to slowly but steadily understand how things work, instead of shooting for the stars on bare feet and crashing down hard. The truth comes with knowledge and experience. If someone tells you the truth... most of the time it doesn't help.

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Truth > Awareness > Knowledge > Experience > Truth

True, but how different is the first truth compared to the last one?

Useful philosophy for all steemian

Thanks @taufar

True that, people need to learn and test themselves, that's how knowledge becomes a part of you, leading from experience to truth, then that is "earned" for you and if you try to "give" it to somebody who doesn't a he same "level" as you he will either understand what he can at his, or worse off misunderstand because of the different levels, sometimes the truth is simple and it's just that, most of the time we know what we need, how we got the problems and such, so there comes action and no amount of words can substitute, words come after or before, but shouldn't come without action :)

Cheers, and Thank You for the short and direct post on a really important topic. Wisdom is earned. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Knowledge_vs_Wisdom hum I got an interesting result there

Yeah, I totally agree with this philosophy. I think that we can only keep the things we earn and everything else is just good for the moment. That is why I would pick learning over suddenly knowing things all day long. Thanks for your thoughts!

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