Proverbs

I think that it means if you have doubt about something then you strive to find the truth by seeking more knowledge.

In other words, when you have doubt you do not accept a statement as truth. If you do not accept it as truth, you may try to find the truth in learning more about it.

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I believe it means that we could never be sure of the accuracy of uncontested knowledge. When we doubt knowledge we know it is under constant scrutiny and therefore we can assure its accuracy.

FOR EXAMPLE:

Einstein has/had many theories that, once established, seemed so brilliant that they remained uncontested however once someone DOUBTED the validity of his claims they were contested and in some cases proved false.

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I agree to somewhat with the previous statement; however the proverb is claiming "doubt is the key to knowledge," all knowledge, not just uncontested knowledge. For many years, the sun was thought to be revolving around the earth, that was not uncontested knowledge for the time. Many scientists had to have debated and challenged that for a long time, and they came to believe it as common fact. It was not until new developments in technology and methods of thought, that people began to doubt the claim and to re-challenge the claim.

Even today, scientists do not doubt necessarily because the results are inaccurate, but because they want to make sure than results are accurate. It does not hurt to look over the results again because a few things can happen: the results are correct thus reaffirming them, the results are incorrect and brings to light a missed variable, the results are correct but going over them brought something else to there attention that warrants investigation. Essentially seeking knowledge is: doubting what you know is all that there is to know.

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I use history as an example. We have to be critical to anything that is written before, even if it just one day or 2000 years. Some historians use different angles or perspective when writing a bout a historic event, do they do this in order to gain from this. One example; England, the golden age 16th century. Everything was flourishing according to one historian but there were also severe suffering for the middle and lower class people of England, not to mention the countries they colonized.

However, in the natural sciences we have 95% probability of something being true. If we begin doubting too a larger extent it can actual hinder our knowledge.

Proverbs portrays her as a benign and powerful spirit, rather than as the earlier goddesses like Asherah, although verse 8:23-31 says that Wisdom was with God from the very beginning, from time everlasting.

{I can't give a textbook answer but I'll try and give an argumentative answer.}

There are two aspects of a holiday that come to mind when considering this expression.

1. A holiday is temporary and is usually over much too quickly and leaves one wanting more.
2. People tend to be much too busy when on holiday; so much so that they need a holiday after returning from holiday.

That being said the meaning could be summarized as follows:

A change - be it the car one drives, where one lives, where one works - and the pleasant novelty thereof is temporary and will fade sooner than one would like after which the desire for another change will inevitably develop.