Information Vs. Knowledge
by sari and · updated 4mo ago
Information Vs. Knowledge
by sari and · updated 4mo ago
“Wisdom is the distilled essence of all of the details.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alara added 7mo ago
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of
... See moreBora added 7mo ago
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Alara added 8mo ago
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