It is important for us humans to gain knowledge and to care about learning more. Being curious is human nature, and it has brought us to many discoveries, new ideas, and innovations that we have now. Being curious can be as small as just reading the news, learning more about events that are happening worldwide, or just asking a simple question. All of this helps us learn more and gain more knowledge and perspective to the world we are in now. This would even help us lead to being more advanced, as we acquire more knowledge.

Before learning about a certain topic, or before knowing an answer to a question, it is common for people to assume the answer, or to expect a certain answer. Making guesses is also important to humans, no matter whether or not the answer would be correct or incorrect, there would always be a logical answer behind making the guess. We would always assume an answer to a question based on logic and the knowledge that we already understand. This would impact how we perceive things as sometimes we might start assuming things more often than finding an actual answer, and not all assumptions might be correct; however, finding out the answer and gaining knowledge would be beneficial.

Our interactions with the material world is able to shape our knowledge as when we learn and discover new objects and materials by the senses we have. This would help us gain our knowledge as we would discover new physical materials, letting us gain an understanding on textures, colors, smells, etc. For example, this lets us understand what an object feels like, without touching it, or that we can assume what it feels like. There are many situations where it is more important to know how to do something than knowing that something. Basic skills in life requires an individual to know how to do them, such as walking, writing, and reading. “Knowing that” is only important when knowing an answer to something. Empathy and imagination is able to help us understand other perspectives by seeing how other people could be suffering, and putting ourselves into their shoes. This would make us also sympathize for them as we would look at different perspectives to gain knowledge.