Knowledge and believe
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Knowledge related to familiarity or acquaintance with something from actual experience. It can be said to be clear perception of what is regarded as fact, truth, or duty. But belief, can be defined as the attitude or act of the mind, belief is not a kind of knowledge but it could be a consequence of knowledge, we should also realise that it is right for one to say that I know X but I do not believe it, but one can not be right is saying that I believe X but I do not know it. Therefore believing X could be a result of knowing it. Believe also comes with a personal issue 'thinking ability' like god and other things believing something supernatural. Most of times, people do believe and do not know or have not seen it physically, or they know little bit about it. But when it comes to knowledge it all has to do with the things we see or experience, so god will not come across this issue.
Knowledge that is acquired thought seeing, and this would eventually interfere with one's beliefs, where there would be a chance of wrong believing. I personally believe that there is wrong in relation to what another person's belief, for example a person could believe that the sun produces white light whiles someone else believes that it is not white light by a mixture of numerous colours. Wrong believing occurs because the perceptual system does not always agree with rational thinking cortex, for example the cortex educated by physics, the moon's distance is 390000km: to the visual brain it is a few hundred metres...