Quotes About Knowledge

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

Now he finds a way to embrace truth, not as a body of theoretical knowledge, but as a way of living: not an epistemology, but an ethics, of truth.

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

An hour spent in any bookstore will also tune you in to what the world is thinking (and writing about), what is hot, what is popular, what the trends are. Just browsing, without even buying anything, is an education in itself.

It has been said that intelligence is not about knowing everything, but about knowing where to find everything.)

I have come to believe that the long-dead were no wiser than we, even when they were alive, and their being dead has added no luster to their wisdom.

We scatter wisdom through our libraries that it may be ignored by our children

When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time. Success

Since there is always another level to learn, mastery actually means you're a master of what you know and an apprentice of what you don't. In other words, we become masters of what is behind us and apprentices for what is ahead. This is why mastery is a journey. Alex

Most people think buying is investing, but they're wrong. Buying doesn't make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.

they favor new information over old, even if the older information is more valuable.

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir Francis Bacon added, "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Indira Gandhi concluded that "the power to question is the basis of all human progress." Great questions are clearly the quickest path to great answers.

Because they study it all the time, they think they are investing—but they're not. Figure

When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see someone who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

When you see someone who has a lot of knowledge, they learned it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of skills, they developed them over time. When you see some one who has done a lot, they accomplished it over time. When you see someone who has a lot of money, they earned it over time. The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

It's really a simple process: You ask a great question, then you seek out a great answer.

The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

Decision researchers were trying to reduce errors, which is important, but we also needed to help people gain expertise and make insightful decisions.

I still observe executives exhibiting the same lack of courage or knowledge that undercut previous waves of innovation. They declare that they want more innovation but then ask, 'Who else is doing it?' They claim to seek new ideas but shoot down every one brought to them.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only through Biblical revelation from the One who knows how the world really works because He made it and actively sustains it that anyone can come to a competent understanding of the world.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

Not hope that he would be rescued--that was gone. But hope in his knowledge. Hope in the fact that he could learn and survive and take care of himself. Tough hope, he thought that night. I am full of tough hope.

In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!