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To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them
And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
I don't read music. I've never had a lesson. I don't know anything about music other than what my inner knowledge is.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.
I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.