Quotes About Knowledge

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world.

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

We knew nothing; the gaps in our knowledge were random and annoying. They were potholes—they could be patched but they multiplied without pattern or remorse. And even if we knew something, had read something, were almost sure of something, we wouldn't ever know the truth, or come anywhere close to it. The truth had to be seen. Anything else was a story, entertaining but more embroidered fib than crude, shapeless fact.

That's what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everything you have ever read, everything you have ever learned from holding a book in your hands and how that knowledge shaped you and made you who you are today. Looking back now on all those years, to when I first discovered books at the library, I see that I was simply falling in love. Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA.

It's the natural state of information to be free.

The less people seem to know about something, the more they pontificate on it.

This knowledge is power and you should be empowered, especially when it comes to politicians who will say anything to get your vote.

Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be un seen.

When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. —Albert Einstein

Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it.

As Peter Drucker wrote: "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results. —Peter F. Drucker

As Peter Drucker has written, "In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined.

In knowledge work … the task is not given; it has to be determined. 'What are the expected results from this work?' is

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One of the most powerful skills in the world of knowledge work, and one of the most important to hone and develop, is creating clear outcomes. This is not as self-evident as it may sound. We need to constantly define (and redefine) what we're trying to accomplish on many different levels, and consistently reallocate resources toward getting these tasks completed as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Sometimes, however, you may need greater rigor and focus to get a project or situation under control, to identify a solution, or to ensure that all the right steps have been determined. This is where vertical focus comes in. Knowing how to think productively in this more vertical way and how to integrate the results into your personal system is the second powerful behavior set needed for knowledge work.