Quotes About Knowledge

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

One man's wit, and all men's wisdom.

It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence.

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Scrutamini scripturas [Let us look at the scriptures]. These two words have undone the world.

He that will give himself to all manner of ways to get money may be rich; so he that lets fly all he knows or thinks may by chance be satirically witty. Honesty sometimes keeps a man from growing rich, and civility from being witty.

No man is the wiser for his learning. It may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

The iterative cycle provides opportunities to convert weakness into strength by using the knowledge derived from failure to shorten the gap between practitioners and their goals.

When a Mannerist artist breaks rules he does so on the basis of knowledge and not of ignorance. A considerable amount of North European architecture of the sixteenth century must be excluded for these reasons.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

I guess there are never enough books.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

It is only a man here and there who has any tolerable knowledge of the character even of the women of his own family.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.