Even 2000 years ago, the relationship between people and knowledge was not particularly good. And the philosophers from that era tried their best to change this. To aid your mission, let’s see if we can adopt some advice from these great minds:
Epictetus on the value of applying knowledge:
Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.
2. Seneca on the value of philosophy (Greek: “Philo” for love, and “Sophos” for wisdom, i.e., Love for Wisdom):
Of all people, only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. Unless we are very ungrateful, all those distinguished founders of holy creeds were born for us and prepared for us a way of life. By the toil of others, we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light.
Slow down to reflect. How can these help in your journey of life?