What is the beginning of knowledge?

Right answers on tests are the bane of knowledge.

on which tests?

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Wisdom is higher than knowledge. Wisdom is where you learn to apply your knowledge, allowing one to extrapolate knowledge to new area, where knowledge starts to break down. It is one thing to learn how to hold and swing a hammer properly, and another thing to use it to frame a house for the first time.

Fear is a greatest motivator, since it brings the possibility of death or injury. The need to avoid this unhappy ending, requires the ability to anticipate and react properly. When all is well, people are content not to change anything or learn anything new. If it is not broken, don't fix it. But if there is a problem where the old is not working and fear starts to kick in, then new adaptation begins, which starts with learning new knowledge, and then learning to apply it as wisdom.

Fear of God, in the old sense, was connected to God thought as being in control of everything. This meant one could not rest on laurels, but had to be concerned that anything could break. The fear kept one in a state of adaptation, until one developed an instinct called wisdom.

wellwisher

I asked about knowledge.

Quoting wellwisher

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom

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Blind deaf mute

Who’s to say only one can be correct? I’d say the first two are correct, roughly speaking. The third is religious mambo jumbo.

Reply to Ghazanfar Arif Are you addressing gays or guys? :P

Ohh sorry Stan . It was typing mistake.