Knowledge is Not Power
To most people, the only way to be powerful is to know more. And by being powerful, they mean having an abundance of money.
I’ve lost count of people who keep enrolling with institutions hoping their newer qualification will help them increase their income, thus, make them (more) powerful.
(reality check, well at least reality seen through my mind)
To be knowledgeable is not to be powerful.
The sad reality being that knowledge isn’t really power, it just has the potential to be.
A gun is not lethal, it has the potential to be. A seed is not a plant, it has the potential to be one. Likewise, love doesn’t really hurt. It has the potential to hurt (ok, maybe I’m pushing it.)
Without action, knowledge is rarely fruitful.
Without action (pulling the trigger) a gun fails to realize its full potential.
Knowledge is meant to empower and its presence makes no difference if it is not utilized.
Without any action: hot water, a tea bag, sugar and milk will be exactly that “hot water, a tea bag, sugar and milk” and not a fresh hot cup of tea.
To be knowledgeable is to posses potential power. And not to be “powerful” as school programmed you to believe so.
*(Now get off your knowledge-able behind, and, go do!)
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— April 26, 2010.