‘Many men have been fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after.’
Henry David Thoreau
Being well informed about external reality amounts to having a knowledge base. But, being aware of the inner self, the endogenous agency is the ultimate knowledge. People in this era of Information Technology are well aware of the world. They have insight into what can be sensorily observed. The pictures that the word produces and the noises that the word makes. But this doesn't amount to wisdom because knowing self should be the first priority. Without knowing oneself, one cannot understand the meaning they attached to reality. They can never understand what their weaknesses are and what has to be done to get over them. This affects their chance to succeed.
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Henry David Thoreau
Being well informed about external reality amounts to having a knowledge base. But, being aware of the inner self, the endogenous agency is the ultimate knowledge. People in this era of Information Technology are well aware of the world. They have insight into what can be sensorily observed. The pictures that the word produces and the noises that the word makes. But this doesn't amount to wisdom because knowing self should be the first priority. Without knowing oneself, one cannot understand the meaning they attached to reality. They can never understand what their weaknesses are and what has to be done to get over them. This affects their chance to succeed.
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