Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce’s knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Pain is the root of knowledge.
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.
I thank God that I’m a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I’m grateful that I know where I come from.
