One Of The Biggest Limiting Factors For Ascertaining Knowledge?

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers" - Voltaire

Yet in the internet age, this is now only half the story. Not only do you need to be able to ask a question with very clear definitions and boundaries, you now need to know the path to direct that question. If you don't know the multitude of available routes to finding the answer to your question, and you don't know the correct one to use for each situation, you'll only ever be as smart as the guy next to you. Because all you'll end up doing is asking the guy next to you. You won't know any other process.

The process that you use to find answers, I think, is one of the biggest limiting factors for our knowledge today. There are so many tools out there that have to power to answer questions - most of them fuelled by the internet age - that our ability to create these processes has, arguably, never been more important than now. Especially with the internet: our ability to clearly articulate, define, and use key search terms is paramount. After that, filtering out the sources of information is vital. There are so many sources of information - a lot of them are just plain wrong - that we need to be especially careful. It's the curse accompanies the gift of the internet: an unregulated, free flow of huge-volume information... but sadly most of it is porn or thoughtless, fallacious utterings. We have to find a process for filtering through the rubbish.

Maybe Voltaire needs an update.

"Judge a woman not by her answers, but by her questions, and consequently the application of her questions."

Yeh, I know what you're thinking. Definitely not as catchy.