Quotes About Knowledge

Until lately the West has regarded it as self-evident that the road to education lay through great books. No man was educated unless he was acquainted with the masterpieces of his tradition. There never was very much doubt in anybody's mind about which the masterpieces were. They were the books that had endured and that the common voice of mankind called the finest creations, in writing, of the Western mind.

You may think you know, but you don't know you know until you can write it down. Research is not daydreaming. Explore your past, relive it, then write it down. In your head it's only memory, but written down it becomes working knowledge. Now with the bile of fear in your belly, write an honest, one-of-a-kind scene.

Superficial knowledge leads to a bland, monotonous telling. With authorial knowledge we can prepare a feast of pleasures. Or at the very least, add humor.

For most writers, the knowledge they gain from reading and study equals or outweighs experience, especially if that experience goes unexamined.

INVESTIGACIÓN La clave para ganar esta guerra es la investigación, dedicar tiempo y esfuerzo a adquirir conocimiento. Yo sugiero algunos métodos específicos: la investigación en nuestra memoria, la investigación de la imaginación y la investigación de los hechos. Habitualmente, toda historia necesita utilizar las tres.

Designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.

The writer works at his skills until knowledge shifts from the left side of the brain to the right

La ignorancia es una estupidez temporal debida a una falta de información, mientras que la estupidez es decidida, independientemente de cuánta información se transmita.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Knowledge is power... all they have to do is wait for the opportunity to use their knowledge and then they'll have the money

learn something, and grow wiser.

with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply.

The reason so many talented people are poor is because they focus on building a better hamburger and know little to nothing about business systems.

Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around.

It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

that it is not so much a matter of college degrees or good grades that count.

I know many people who are poor because they are neither good students nor good teachers.

Now that I am older and hopefully wiser, I more fully appreciate

Why should I bother developing my financial IQ?

the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

He explained that once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. That struggle is a moment to moment decision to learn to open or close one's mind... Unfortunately, for many people school is the end, not the beginning.

because it was expensive to not know the law.

It's financial literacy. It begins with the ability to understand the words and the number systems of capitalism. If you don't understand the words or the numbers, you might as well be speaking a foreign language. And, in many cases, each quadrant represents a foreign language.

I want to teach you to master the power of money, instead of being afraid of it. They don't teach that in school and, if you don't learn it, you become a slave to money.