Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Thinking and Knowing

 


Much learning does not teach understanding.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise
Heraclitus

   


    Thinking and knowing can be compared to the propagation of sound in the matter. To get sound, you must have a source of energy that will produce vibrations and a medium in which the vibrations will propagate. Sound does not travel in a vacuum. The denser the medium, the higher the speed of sound propagation.

     Thinking can be compared with the source of sound, and knowledge - with the medium in which sound propagates. One cannot exist without the other. Thinking is the energy that organizes knowledge. Without this energy, knowledge will be dead. But knowledge can speed up the work of the mind.

© Galina Popovici, 2020 All rights reserved

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