Quotes about knowledge
knowledge men skills
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
knowledge knowing bent
The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... Matthew Arnold
knowledge wells knows
It is well for one to know more than he says Plautus
knowledge may masters
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good. Plato
knowledge people pleasure
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
knowledge together tongue
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'
knowledge sake moments
The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.
knowledge buying meat
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
knowledge glad
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
knowledge giving quests
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. James Jeans
knowledge jeans rivers
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.
knowledge fog together
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.
knowledge two common-sense
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it. John Searle
knowledge uniforms done
The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done. Mark Peters
knowledge rust rich
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. Philip Sidney
knowledge action should
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
knowledge hands people
There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it. Peter Drucker
knowledge-workers assets institutions
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.
knowledge learning volunteer
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
knowledge learning two
You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.
knowledge tree forests
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
knowledge innovation tasks
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...
knowledge writing men
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. Sherwood Anderson
knowledge knowing knows
They are so knowing, that they know nothing. Terence
knowledge capacity humans
Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited. Nicolas Chamfort
knowledge men victory
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Nikos Kazantzakis
knowledge mean essence
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner. Niels Bohr
knowledge ideas ties
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
knowledge order littles
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order...we take what we know a little too seriously.
knowledge math intuition
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition. Morris Kline
knowledge math body
Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
knowledge learning justice
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. John Ruskin
knowledge law facts
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.