In my opinion, what Albert Knox meant by this quote is that people haven’t thought carefully about life. For example, why do we live and who are we? When we were young, we took things simpler then we are when we grew up. Children are full of innocence and queries. There are many questions inside their minds which they really want to find out the answer to but they are too young and immature to understand the reason. Whatever you say, they will take it as the truth. They don’t have the ability to define what is right and wrong. However, as we grown up, we gain knowledge from school, friends, and mainly by the surrounding that we live in.
We gain knowledge about life unintentionally as we grow up. At different age, we learn different things, and we experience different aspects in life. Other than that, we are strongly affected by the environment and culture that we live in. If I were to live in another country, I might have adapted another culture and I might act different than I am now. I disagree with Albert Knox’s quote because I feel that if I were 60 years old, I will still have lots of question in my mind that I want an answer to. However, it might not be necessarily to be answered. Even though many questions are already answered scenically but it has not satisfactorily answered to me. It seems like it is impossible to find the first cause of the start of this world.
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If we gain knowledge all the time from our surrounding enviroments and life in general, shouldn't that make us think more as we apply this knowledge to life? And if we think more, aren't we careful about how we think about life?
I agree with Gloria about the fact that unlike young children we can explain many things with our existing knowledge so therefore we seem to lose our curiosity towards new objects. As we can already explain many things, there is nothing to be curious about.
It is so true that when people tell us things as an infant, we assume that it is correct. I also agree that when we get to our senior years, we would wonder once more, because you would have less work, less things to worry about thus more time to wonder.
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