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Mortality is a great disappointment in so many ways. We spend a lifetime accumulating knowledge and wisdom only to have our bodies wither and fade. Another generation begins the cycle anew - but without the benefit of a mature learning curve to serve as our foundation. Countless great minds have left their indelible, timeless mark through their words however. Its to those captured masterworks of thought we dedicate, and acknowledge the importance of, our Great Quotes archive. As each new generation takes up the torch - we can and should learn a great deal from those that have "been there, and done that".
The earth is a cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever." Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, Father of Russian Astronautics, 1896 “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing." Samuel Butler "Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it." Anonymous "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." Robert Quillen "I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." Oscar Wilde "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." Martin H. Fischer "Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness" George Washington "Knowledge is only potential power." Napoleon Hill "Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse." Proverb "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." Kahlil Gibran "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius "The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge." Thomas Berger "The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do." Benjamin Disraeli "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." Oscar Wilde "There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it." Charles F. Kettering "There is no knowledge that is not power." Ralph Waldo Emerson "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." Aristotle "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge." Lao Tzu "To know and not to do is not to know." Proverb "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Henry David Thoreau “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” Thomas Carlyle “Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.” Robert A. Heinlein “Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.” Eric Raymond “All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.” Arthur Aufderheide “All knowledge is worth having.” Jacqueline Carey “All men by nature desire to know.” Aristotle “As much as possible, to boost mankind's collective capability for coping with complex, urgent problems.” Douglas C. Engelbart “Better is the enemy of ‘good enough.’” John Berg “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” George Bernard Shaw “Collaboration equals innovation.” Michael Dell “He who tells all that he knows, tells more than he knows.” George Harrison “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” John F. Kennedy “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” Isaac Asimov “If things are not interesting in themselves, how can any amount of knowledge about them be?” George MacDonald “If you don't like that idea, I've got plenty of others!” R. Buckminster Fuller “Ignorance hates knowledge.” Death Star “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” William Shakespeare “I'm looking forward to a world where the whole concept of ‘e-mail’ – a special mode of operation where everything is viewed based on discrete transactions – is replaced by a much more powerful way of viewing and sharing connected information in context.” Harlan Hugh “Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.” Albert Einstein “In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work.” Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak “Information is not knowledge.” Albert Einstein “Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein “It isn’t what you know that counts; it’s what you think of in time.” Benjamin Franklin “It’s the people, stupid.” Alan Kay “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” Sir Francis Bacon “Knowledge is experience; everything else is information.” Albert Einstein “Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.” “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.” Louis L’Amour “Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.” Samuel Johnson “Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Samuel Johnson “Knowledge is power, knowledge is safety, knowledge is happiness.” Thomas Jefferson “Knowledge is power.” Sir Francis Bacon “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.” Albert Einstein “Knowledge shared is knowledge squared.” Microsoft “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance” James Madison “Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.” Emile M. Cioran “Knowledge, in truth, is the grate sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.” Daniel Webster “One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.” Lao-tzu “Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Sensory raw material, the only source of our knowledge … may lead us to belief and expectation but not [necessarily] to knowledge.” Albert Einstein “The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” Benjamin Franklin “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” John F. Kennedy “The great end of knowledge is not knowledge, but action.” Thomas Henry Huxley “The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” John F. Kennedy “The only reason [groupware is] worth the effort at all is that it's inevitable.” Susanna Opper & Henry Fersko-Weiss “The only source of knowledge is experience.” Albert Einstein “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” Albert Einstein “There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” Albert Einstein “To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.” Sir Benjamin Disraeli “Trust is the bandwidth of human communications.” Karl Erik Sveiby “We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “We must know; we will know.” Hilbert “What you know you know. What you don’t know, you don’t know. This is knowledge.” Confucius "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." -- Samuel Johnson "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." -- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC) "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." -- Frank Hubert (1920 - 1986) "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." -- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804) "All men by nature desire to know." -- Aristotle "Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality." -- Unknown "The value of a network is equal to the square of the number of participants." (In our case the "network" can be considered the number of people participating in the knowledge system.) -- Unknown "Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value." -- Louis L'Amour "The great end of knowledge is not knowledge, but action." -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns." -- John Maurice Clark (1884-1971), Columbia University, in Journal of Political Economy, Oct. 1927 "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge." -- Confucius (c.551-479 B.C.) in Analects "There is no knowledge that is not power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) in Old Age. "Knowledge is power they say. Knowledge is not only power it is good fun." -- E. M. Forester (1879-1970) in Commonplace Book. "Information gathering is the basis of all other managerial work, which is why I choose to spend so much of my day doing it." -- Andrew S. Grove, CEO, Intel Corp. in High Output Management (Random House, 1983). "Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know." -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592), French philosopher & essayist, in Works. "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge." -- John Naisbitt in Megatrends (Warner, 1984) "The secret of business success is not who you know. It's what you know." -- Wall Street Journal, 1987 TV advertisement "Knowledge is power." -- Sir Francis Bacon in Religious Meditations, Of Heresies. 1597 "The gathering of knowledge is the supreme achievement of man." -- Lyndon B. Johnson, Jan. 22, 1964. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites              |
