Knowledge Quotes - Page 36

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Lack of knowledge - that is the problem.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?