The question of how our beliefs about the world and about what is valuable influence our pursuit of knowledge is very important. Of course we know that our beliefs affect us in our every day life. They affect our actions, our interactions with people, they even affect our eating habits. If we believe that it is important to eat well, then we are not going to eat cookies for lunch, instead we would try to …showed first 75 words of 1194 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1194 total…have said through time and we have common knowledge to use in our quest for more knowledge and understanding. These ways of gaining knowledge is just as important as researching or studying are. They also lead to a greater understanding of our world and prompt us to revise our beliefs and gain more knowledge which, once gained, will encourage us to think about what we think is valuable and what we believe about the world.