Quotes About Knowledge

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. Let

Education consist, not so much of knowledge, but knowledge effectively and persistently applied. Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know.

for no one who lacks faith in himself is really educated in the proper sense of the term.

much of that which is taught in the schools is of no value whatsoever in connection with the business of earning a living or accumulating riches.

Inteligencia Infinita.

A real student will not merely read this book, he will absorb its contents and make them his own.

Life is too short for confusion; and knowledge grows and progress proceeds along avenues of system which prevent retardation and retrogression, so that he who systematizes his knowledge or business, simplifies and enhances it for his successor, enabling him to begin, with a free mind, where he left off.

The accumulation of great fortunes calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed specialized knowledge, but that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.

How much actual cash that original DESIRE of Barnes' has been worth to him, I have no way of knowing. Perhaps it has brought him two or three million dollars, but the amount, whatever it is, becomes insignificant when compared with the greater asset he acquired in the form of definite knowledge that an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles.

conocimientos aplicados de manera efectiva y persistente.

Any man who devotes that much time . . . must of necessity make discoveries of great value to others.

Which, translated into workaday language, means that none of us know very much, and by the very nature of our being can never know as much as we need to know in order to live sanely and enjoy life while we live.

Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.

He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth.

A man may become a walking encyclopaedia of knowledge without possessing any power of value. This knowledge becomes power only to the extent that it is organized, classified and put into action.

An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others. Henry Ford comes well within the meaning of this definition.

DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

Books and lessons, in themselves, are of but little value; their real value, if any, lies not in their printed pages, but in the possible action which they may arouse in the reader.

The person who stops studying merely because he or she has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what that person's calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

You have a brain and mind of your own. USE IT, and reach your own decisions. If you need facts or information from other people, to enable you to reach decisions, as you probably will in many instances; acquire these facts or secure the information you need quietly, without disclosing your purpose.

Cualquier hombre es educado si sabe dónde adquirir el conocimiento cuando lo necesita y cómo organizar ese conocimiento en planes definidos de acción.

conhecimento definitivo de que um impulso intangível de pensamento pode ser transmutado em recompensas materiais pela aplicação de princípios conhecidos.

POWER may be defined as "organized and intelligently directed KNOWLEDGE.

Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.