Knowledge Vs. Imagination

How is KNOWLEDGE power? or how do we benefit from ideas and learning different points of view? Knowledge is power, awareness, understanding of how things or someone works. Knowledge is facts of what we believe or think, is the skill we learn and knowledge is the acknowledge of humankind. Without knowledge we would still be stuck in the 100 century and most of us wouldn’t live for as long as we get to live today or even live to see people on a screen for hours. Anyway knowledge benefit us in many different ways.

Most people tend to get the wrong impression when they think of “Imagination overcoming reason.” They believe that the only people that fall under this category are those with extreme fears or those who are borderline insane. Although this

Your imagination is going. The quote is saying no matter what you will always have have what you know. Knowledge gives us, feelings, family, love and health. I think all around knowledge makes things real.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” –Albert Einstein

Mental Imagery plays a role in our lives, it helps us plan for the future and make decisions. Although there are some people who never experience mental imagery. There are many

Imagination is an intrinsic part of the human experience. It has the power to mold reality by defining the limits of possibility and affecting perception. Both Alan White and Irving Singer examine aspects of this power in their respective works The Language of Imagination and Feeling and Imagination. White delineates how imagination is a necessary precursor to possibility (White 179) while Singer primarily illustrates imagination's effect on human relationships, such as love (Singer 29-48). Despite their different focuses, White and Singer demonstrate the impact that imagination has on human perceptions of reality. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amelie explores this facet of imagination: the film

Another reason imagination takes over has something to do with experience and maturity. Many people believe that, “...if you’re too young to know monsters are fake, it can be quite traumatic..” (Ringo 92). This is more logical because many children don’t know when something is real or fake just for the simple fact that they’ve never been in that situation. When people experience something that they don’t understand, we imagine that there’s no other way the situation can go but bad instead of thinking it through.

In the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien imagine is the most important word because it develops emotions in the soldiers, but also gives them an opportunity to mentally relax. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is most distracted by his imagination because of his love for Martha. While at war the men often dream or let their consciousness wander in attempt to alleviate mental stress. The war brings many unimaginable horrors which forces the men to frequently think of ideas to relieve them from the battle. The word imagine can act as a mental release or as a way to express or hide

Perception is quite an important piece in real life as well. The power of perceptions is amazing how it can actually help one or bring one down. One has the power to determine the response from events. “Perceptions begin when the human brain receives data from the body’s five sense.” (Enayati, A., 2012, p.2). An example that demonstrates how perception is able to help is Victor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist who lived three years in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Frankl became aware that he had only one freedom during that time which was the freedom to determine his response for a sorrowful truth. To imagine is to have the power to decide the response to events. Frankl decided that he would image seeing his wife, teaching students about what happened during the Holocaust, and the lessons learned while being in camp.

Although some may not have the mind that other do, imagination is a wild thing. King states “sometimes the most basic skills can create things far beyond our expectations?” I take this as if that basic skills building up can create or make an imagination grow to its full potential. The better you get at something and the more it is practiced the better you become at it. With building stronger skills comes a stronger imagination and put those skills to the test. Imagination allows us to create things unimaginable.

We as humans tend to have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. We look for knowledge about everybody and everything that surrounds us from our day-to-day life. Sadly though, we must accept that in the grand scheme of life we (as a society) tend to put pleasure above our quest for knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge tends to take time and energy, two things we call invaluable, and it also shows us things that might depress us. Contrastingly, ignorance takes no time and energy. Also, (as the common saying goes) ignorance is bliss. It keeps ugly truths away from us. But that is no reason to forsake knowledge for ignorance. In the early 1900’s, two books were published that would eventually be referred to the pinnacle of classical literature.

imagination. It exists in the mind in virtue of the nature of the human mind.

The term ‘imagination’, in turn, is used originally used by Mills (1959) (rather than ‘perspective’), because the concept also fits with cultural and literary understanding. It seeks to combine some of the qualities of art that it prizes (capturing and expressing the needs of the individual), and some qualities already in literature (presenting the social norms that shape individuals), with a “social and historical reality”, a “big picture in which... [individuals] can understand themselves” (Mills, 1959: 20). In this way it hopes to blend “the scientific and the humanistic” (Mills, 1959: 16) to form a comprehensive basis for the study of the social sciences.

A perpetual conflict emanating throughout all mankind questions the significance of knowledge to human nature, regarding knowledge’s definition, acquisition, branches, and value. Major role models in the foundation of philosophy - specifically, in this essay, Plato and Aristotle - obsess over the significance of knowledge and its importance to and relationship with the development of human beings and their mindsets. Although Plato’s view on knowledge describes the internal predisposed essence of all Forms and the need for a superior being to extract them from the student, Aristotle’s outlook resides as more reliable and realistic due to his beliefs in the premise of knowledge in the sensation and perception, with continuing development in memory, experience, art and science, and, ultimately, true wisdom.

According to Eagleton “imaginative” is what the mind can create using its originality and exceptionality, it is something that has not occurred in real life, or cannot be claimed as something factually true. It is conceived in the minds of individuals, but not projected into real life. He uses terms like “did not exist” “literary untrue”, “inventive” to further state his opinion on what “imaginative” is. Imaginative for the Romantics had three main functions; the capability to transcend reality, to recreate memory, and to notify the creation of art.