The Great Conversation

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." ~ Confucius, Chinese thinker and social philosopher

Connecting with a post that Hunter made (viewable here, click!), we can say that we must always be engaged and soak up knowledge that comes our way. In this quote from Confucius we learn that if we do not take in what we are learning then we are just simply wasting our time, and that if we think without any knowledge then we are dead. What good is life if we do not fully learn what we need to in order to survive, and what good is being ignorant? Theses are questions that lead us to ponder this quote and Hunter's quote. If we do not learn and take in knowledge from the valuable lessons we are given everyday then we are hopeless to survive in this world. If we do not learn but instead think without knowledge then we are simply being ignorant. We are then not living up to our full potential and so we must strive to first learn and then think.