Quotes About Knowledge

You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.

Spend 80 percent of your time on books and 20 percent on articles and newspapers. And by books, I don't mean just any book. I mean hardcovers. A paperback is made to be read. A hardcover is made to be studied. There's a huge difference.

Every year, improve your knowledge résumé through self-education. Otherwise, you'll have to claw, scratch, or repeat your way to semi-success in life.

I then told him about the advantages of being a lovecat, and the three necessary steps to getting there: sharing your knowledge, sharing your network, sharing your compassion.

Reading is a source of potency, I said, so manage it like an asset. Become a walking encyclopedia of answers for anyone who has questions.

That's not how the world is run," I replied. "It's run via intangibles—knowledge, networks, and compassion.

you'll never get dumber by making someone else smarter.

One of the biggest differences between leaders and followers is that leaders are learners.

Here in the realm of books she's self-assured. She has some of the control she doesn't have anywhere else.

it would be moral to force someone to do something which they would volunteer for if they were a moral person in possession of all of the facts.

It took the zombie horde, such as it was, a moment to realize we were there, but as soon as they did, they began moaning, "Braaaaiiiinssss…" and started heading toward us as fast as their dead bodies would permit. "Idiots," Lazlo said. "Why are they always obsessed with brains? Don't they know how hard it is to bite through a skull?" "I do not want to know how you came by that knowledge," I said.

Re: J. Edgar Hoover] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow.

The FBI was not incompetent or indifferent. It did not know what it did not know.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.

Unlike almost every other commodity, information becomes more valuable the more it is used. Consider

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to. How

When it came to the war, he believed that the "consent" of the governed had been, in his phrase, "manufactured." Hence, as he wrote, "It is no longer possible…to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify.

Zhang was scathing toward authors who write history by simply repeating ancient facts and dismissing recent developments. Such people perpetuate ignorance rather than produce knowledge.

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

My goal is to learn things once and use them forever.

The means of learning are abundant—it's the desire to learn that's scarce.