Information, Knowledge, Reason: A short, elementary understanding.

Knowledge, it is said, is the higher pursuit of life. And we must free our minds to follow wherever that search may lead us.

Knowledge informs. Knowledge teaches us about the world. It teaches us mostly about the way things work in this world.

Information alone is not knowledge if it has not been filtered through our thoughts. Simply put, if we have not
at least think through the information we received, then that information has not much use. In this "information age", we are literally drowning in information.

But higher than the pursuit of knowledge is the search for reason. Knowledge alone is like looking at the world with only one eye. We lose perspective of our world.

Reason is knowledge informed by compassion. It is the highest order in our process of learning in this world, perhaps.

Reason is knowledge filtered through conscience, and Truth. Information can be simply true or false. Knowledge can be of the truth. But in these days, i find them mostly ambiguous, if not false. In this age of unreason, where do one even find the truth? i have not found an answer to that.

Maybe reason could only be found if we look inside ourselves, and ask "is there a reason for life?".