Knowledge Quotes
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If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
Edmund Phelps
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To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge - knowledge for leadership of transformation.
W. Edwards Deming
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Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.
Yann Tiersen
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Nikola Tesla
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Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.
Pierre Boulez
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
Hippocrates
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
Landon Donovan
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Konrad Lorenz
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke Nazareth
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey
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I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
Daisaku Ikeda
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'I understand that we're obligated, as humans, to share what we see and know. And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible.''It's the natural state of information to be free.'
Dave Eggers
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The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.
Ha-Joon Chang
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The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
Dayananda Saraswati
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
Kofi Annan
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer
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More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.
Albert Einstein