Knowledge is a true organ of sight

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“Knowledge is a true organ of sight, not the eyes” is a quite interesting quote by Panchatantra. To answer this question it would be easiest that one would first translate it into an easy understandable sentence with a clear message, since this quote can have multiple meanings. The way I found this quote to make the most sense is when I translated it into the following sentence; Knowledge is a real consultable source of seeing, not the eyes. I find this the best translation to understand this quote, since it is very clear and straightforward. The next questions one could ask him/herself is: Is the quote true, and till what extent is this quote true.

Is the quote “Knowledge is a true organ of sight, not the eyes” true or not? To say if the quote is true or not is a big statement to make right away, therefore I found It easiest to look at an example which could help to understand this quote better. A good example to start off with is this: When one is watching television and one sees something on the news about an arrested murderer and one sees his face one might think, he looks like such a nice guy, but one knows that he did commit murder and therefore is probably not such a nice guy as one thought initially. What you know to be true and what might seem true to the eyes is not always the same, this does not mean that it is never true but the eye can be misleading. In this case the eyes failed to lead you to the truth, but because you linked your knowledge to what you saw a correct image got created, therefore we can say that cooperation between both sources “organs of sight” created a correct image, had one organ failed than we could say that a faulty image would be there.

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An obvious question one could ask himself/herself states: What about a blind man? This is a quite difficult question to answer, to answer it we will have to ask ourselves: what do we actually mean by “sight”. If we interpret it the scientific way we can say that the blind man has no sight, since no light which is entering the eyes is being interpret correctly. If we look at it in an different way by interpreting “sight” to be analyzing what is around us, the blind man will have sight, since he can analyze specific objects, however he ...

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