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Quotes About Knowledge

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
~ Idries Shah
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
~ Idries Shah
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
~ Idries Shah
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
~ Idries Shah
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
~ Idries Shah
no el mucho saber harta y satisface al ánima, mas el sentir y gusta de las cosas internamente.
~ Unknown
Quién conoce el bien?. le preguntaron a Dante y él respondió: sólo quien conoce el mal.
~ Unknown
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
~ Igor Stravinsky
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
~ Ike Skelton
the wise know nothing at all well maybe one song
~ Ikkyu
Tacit knowledge is personal, context-specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Explicit or "codified" knowledge, on the other hand, refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language.
~ Ikujiro Nonaka
Such reflection is always necessary in the knowledge-creating company, but it is especially essential during times of crisis or breakdown, when a company's traditional categories of knowledge no longer work.
~ Ikujiro Nonaka
Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.
~ Ilchi Lee
Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.
~ Ilchi Lee
I would suggest that developing in every student the positive potential that can benefit the world has to be the primary purpose of education, rather than the effort to impart knowledge and skills.
~ Ilchi Lee
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
~ Colin Powell
No such thing as a stupid question
~ Colin Powell
Tell me what you know. • Tell me what you don't know. • Then tell me what you think. • Always distinguish which from which.
~ Colin Powell
Leaders need to know ground truth and not just what they get from reports and staffs.
~ Colin Powell
As the saying goes, "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
~ Colin Powell
Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.
~ Colin Wilson
If a pair of pigeons alighted on a discarded newspaper page on a New York street, would they understand the content of the paper?
~ Unknown
A fool is he who begs of thee the answers to all creation.
~ Unknown
Believe what you wish to be the truth, but remember what you know to be fact.
~ Unknown