Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit—wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Of course I know how to drive. Now, if you ask me if I know how to drive well, the answer would be different.

Light is knowledge. Darkness is confusion. Light is strength, like being connected to a battery. Light is love, the reason we live. It is hope. No matter how magnificent or how bleak our situation, we can have better. Light is truth. There are no shadows where secrets can hide. I

I may not be a doctor, but I've watched every episode of House. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing.

The wise will rise, and the fool will duel

He nodded again. "We didn't know Lexis was pregnant when we both volunteered for some…experiments to enhance our DNA. Unfortunately, those experiments affected Sunny more than me and Lexis.

Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don't have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge accumulates, so it can increase. Scientists and engineers know this, but artists, authors, and philosophers keep trying to start over from ground zero in the humanities. Thus, they don't really progress—they become primitive.

Universal literacy, taken for granted today, was a direct result of the Reformation's reemphasis upon the centrality of Bible reading

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

A firm-wide, shared source code repository is one of the most powerful mechanisms used to integrate local discoveries across the entire organization.

I've also come across otherwise smart [people] who are of the mistaken belief that if they hold on to a task, something only they know how to do, it'll ensure job security. These people are knowledge Hoarders. This doesn't work. Everyone is replaceable. No matter how talented they are. Sure it may take longer at first to find out how to do that special task, but it will happen without them.

knowing is always better than not knowing. Keep

because everything is being recorded, we may not need to ask someone else for help in the future—we simply search for it.

telemetry is what enables us to assemble our best understanding of reality and detect when our understanding of reality is incorrect.

It is ignorance that is the mother of all problems, and the only thing that can overcome it is learning.

Creating software should be a collaborative and conversational endeavor—individuals need to interact with each other to create new knowledge and value for the customer.

When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge.

build ever-deeper knowledge about how to manage the systems for doing our work, converting inevitable up-front ignorance into knowledge.

we also design our system of work so that we can multiply the effects of new knowledge, transforming local discoveries into global improvements. Regardless of where someone performs work, they do so with the cumulative and collective experience of everyone in the organization.

I'm not suggesting Brent is doing this deliberately, but I wonder whether Brent views all his knowledge as a sort of power. Maybe some part of him is reluctant to give that up. It does put him in this position where he's virtually impossible to replace.

Even under the best circumstances, some knowledge is inevitably lost with each handoff. With

When new learnings are discovered locally, there must also be some mechanism to enable the rest of the organization to use and benefit from that knowledge into explicit, codified knowledge, which becomes someone else's expertise through practice.

New local knowledge is exploited globally throughout the organization.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.