Quotes About Knowledge

common sense isn't always common practice.

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings. That person values the differences because those differences add to his knowledge, to his understanding of reality. When we're left to our own experiences, we constantly suffer from a shortage of data.

The being/seeing change is an upward process—being changing seeing, which in turn changes being, and so forth, as we move in an upward spiral of growth. By working on knowledge, skill, and desire, we can break through to new levels of personal and interpersonal effectiveness as we break with old paradigms that may have been a source of pseudo-security for years.

habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." —T.S. Eliot

No hay mejor forma de alimentar y expandir la mente de forma regular que hacerse el hábito de leer buenos libros.7

Habits are patterns of behavior composed of three overlapping components: knowledge, attitude, and skill.

more you know the more you know you don't know.

There's no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. That's another high leverage Quadrant II activity. You can get into the best minds that are now or that have ever been in the world. I highly recommend starting with a goal of a book a month, then a book every two weeks, then a book a week. "The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."—Samuel Johnson Knowing that we are responsible—"response-able"—is fundamental to effectiveness and to every other habit of effectiveness we will discuss.

the person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read

Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. I

When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?" —Henry David Thoreau

by his limited perception—a reality that is as critical for us to understand in our daily lives as it was for the captain in the fog.

the map is not the territory." A map is simply an explanation of certain aspects of the territory.

the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interactions with the hearts and minds of other human beings. That person values the differences because those differences add to his knowledge, to his understanding of reality. When we're left to our own experiences, we constantly suffer from a shortage of data.

define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?" I

Covey believed that timeless principles do indeed exist, and that the search for them is not folly, but wisdom