Quotes About Knowledge

When you hear someone say, Now this is just off the top of my head, expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others' successes.

People approach any task with one of two mindsets: what I call the "Be-Good" mindset, where your focus is on proving that you have a lot of ability and already know what you're doing, and the "Get-Better" mindset, where your focus is on developing ability. You can think of it as the difference between wanting to prove that you are smart, and wanting to get smarter.

Education makes all the difference.

Ignorance means we didn't have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

Experience alone isn't a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

Horace Walpole dijo que «las equivocaciones en la ciencia siempre anteceden a la verdad».

The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, "How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?" "Five," the man answered. "No," replied Lincoln, "he'll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

La habilidad de hacer la pregunta correcta le da la mitad de la victoria en la batalla por encontrar la respuesta".

If you don't already have a mentor, go out and find one. If you can't get someone to help you in person, begin the process by reading books. That's where I got started. The main thing is to get the process under way.

Peter Drucker, dijo: "Mi mayor fortaleza como consultor es ser ignorante y hacer unas cuantas preguntas".

No entender lo que usted quiere es un problema de conocimiento. No tratar de obtener lo que quiere es un problema de motivación. No lograr lo que quiere es un problema de persistencia.

Jim Rohn's comment: "Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.

Every day I read, write, think, ask questions, and file what I learn. These are the five disciplines I practice to keep improving.

Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it's 85 percent people knowledge.

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

Inventor Charles F. Kettering said, "There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.

When we are fully and totally networked, we are powerful.1 Sanders believes that along with knowledge and compassion, your network is your most valuable asset.

To maximize the value of momentum, leaders must: (1) develop an appreciation for it early; (2) know the key ingredients of it immediately; and (3) pour resources into it always.

Todas las cosas son fáciles de entender cuando se descubren. El punto es descubrirlas. Eso requiere investigación".

President Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.