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Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.
Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.