Quotes About Knowledge

if you understand the technical work of a business, you understand a business that does that technical work.

Anthony Greenbank, who said in The Book of Survival, "To live through an impossible situation, you don't need the reflexes of a Grand Prix driver, the muscles of a Hercules, the mind of an Einstein. You simply need to know what to do.

LA PERSPECTIVA E-MYTH El conocimiento y la conciencia son similares en sus esferas respectivas. El uno se encuentra en el centro intelectual; la otra, en el centro emocional. El conocimiento es saber. La conciencia es sentir. MAURICE NICOLL Comentarios psicológicos

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

And we do that by making sure they understand the idea behind the work they're being asked to do.

Wenn die Menschen wüssten, was der Tod ist, dann hätten sie keine Angst mehr vor ihm.

When you know as much as we do, nothing matters.

Wenn die Menschen wüssten, was der Tod ist, dann hätten sie keine Angst mehr vor ihm. Und wenn sie keine Angst mehr hätten, könnte keiner ihnen ihre Lebenszeit stehlen.

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I wonder what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut up in a book.

Y tú sabes sonambular de verdad?-preguntó la muchacha sin aliento-. ¿Y nos lo puedes enseñar? -¡Claro!-respondió el muchacho-. Aunque solo es muy difícil. A dos ya es mucho más fácil. Y si lo hacen muchos a la vez siempre sale bien. ¡Todos los sonámbulos de verdad lo saben!

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power

I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books.

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Michael Gruber

How then do we know Jesus?  We know Him in worship together, in study together, in reflection together and in reasoning together.

Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.

There is no darkness but ignorance. – Shakespeare

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

Permanecí en silencio. No quería decirle que aquello era una práctica común. No quería contarle que en el mundo de los negocios los secretos son dinero, que el miedo es una arma, que el conocimiento es poder.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally everything you do you're trying to predict the right thing. Most people just do it subconsciously." A

If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.