Quotes About Knowledge

You can't imagine everything because you don't know everything there is to imagine.

Enthusiasm. Order: self-organization. Think in terms of others' interests. Questions. Key issue. Silence: listen. Sincerity: deserve confidence. Knowledge of my business. Appreciation and praise. Smile: happiness. Remember names and faces. Service and prospecting. Closing the sale: action.

A leadership team cannot be effective if its understanding of change is erroneous, incomplete, misinformed or outdated.

We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on. How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda

You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?