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Knowledge Is Power - But Also Madness?

From the time I was a child, I have heard the expression, “knowledge is power,” and I believed it. I thought that if I knew how to read and write, no one could pull the wool over my eyes, which is proven to be true. However, this is not to say that others have never tricked me, they have, but these experiences have also given me more knowledge.

On the other hand, I have also heard the expression, “too much knowledge could drive you mad,” and some of my friends were kind enough to point out the people they claimed had been driven mad by knowledge. As a child, I felt caught between a rock and a hard place because others told me that knowledge is good, but on the other hand, too much of it isn’t good. Wow! What was I to do?

Well, I decided to pursue knowledge, but not too much, because I did not want to be driven mad by it. Then…, the Internet came along …, what? How can I measure knowledge anyhow? Shouldn’t knowledge have given me the answer to this question long ago? Perhaps there is more to this than just knowing about a lot of things. What do you think?



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