I don’t know what I know

01/07/2023 Nilson Lattari

I don’t know what I know sounds good in a phrase. In the end, one of the greatest human qualities is understanding we don’t know a lot of things. When we say this quote at the beginning of this text, we reveal our position faced with the unknown. At the same time, we cannot be humble faced with others who demonstrate knowledge over all issues. Then, our behaviour has to demonstrate that we have to look for knowledge to achieve another level: the “I know”.
Sometimes, those who know the right answers to questions about a specific subject are suspicious as well. In the end, if we face unknown issues and we are looking for answers to them, the first question is: where is the origin of this information?
When we say “I don’t know”, this expression comes from the unknown, and we have to look for its origin to satisfy our thirst for knowledge. The water to satisfy our thirst has to be clean and crystalline or we are looking for knowledge in murky waters.
Knowledge comes from different ways. One of them comes from our arrogance and our behaviour to accuse people, and to point our finger at others to try to impose our arguments. Or when it comes from arguments sparked at the table, and we will pick them up to fit our needs. This is not knowledge. It is not a demonstration of knowledge. It’s simply, fear.
The curious one who knows his limit and understands his ignorance looks carefully for the truth, and doesn’t want solutions without fundaments. Some people look for the easiest solution that they find in lies that exist in bubbles where people prefer to believe in each other. Including vanity, the mother of all sins, that some people use to hide their ignorance,
But, there is the “I don’t know that I know” that seems like a disorganized knowledge, when people don’t want to admit that they don’t know anything. The origins of some pieces of knowledge that people disseminate are supported by false arguments. And they don’t care if knowledge is based on documents or facts. Basically, people would like to believe in their supposed knowledge and they follow voices that sound in their minds. Facing with the ignorance of others is trying to understand stupid theories, false characters, friends or relatives living in the deepest unknown place.
In this competitive world, if we reveal that we don’t know a specific issue, this action demonstrates courage.
But there is the best courage. When those people have knowledge based on supposed wisdom without support in real life. If someone presents questions to us and we say to them “I know” without responsibility, this behaviour sounds easier because this knowledge is based on theories that came from naught. These characters of the real-life risk their integrity and reputation because it is possible that others scorn them.
We don’t know what we know or we know what we don’t know. This dilemma defines human beings looking for knowledge. This is a hard task, and to dominate it is impossible.
The sophisticated “I don’t know” is so big that supposed experts are able to show numbers and magic stats elaborated from their false characters. When they lie and people show it, in their defence, they become aggressive and offend their adversaries. It’s like using books as weapons, physically, but they don’t open them to erase their ignorance. They use them for a physical attack, and finally they refuse knowledge inside books where there is the knowledge that they would like to know.