If indeed we are the sum of our memories, then knowledge is one manifestation of that sum. Knowledge, though, is more than rote memorization. Knowledge implies information that is organized, integrated, and applied. It can be trivial or profound, but it transcends simple facts.
Knowledge may be grounded in experiences, but it allows us to grow beyond them. It fuels the imagination. It allows us to extrapolate into the future, beyond our memories of the past. Knowledge allows us to be deductive and intuitive. It exceeds the boundaries of ourselves and lets us expand into the world, the universe. Knowledge gives us hope, fear, dreams, a sense of our place in space and time.
To learn is to grow. Seek Knowledge, seek change, seek to be more tomorrow than you are today.
Life is Change
How it differs from the rocks
I've seen their ways too often for my liking
New worlds to gain
My life is to survive
and be alive
for you.
Jefferson Airplane
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