Knowledge Quotes

Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

~ Sigourney Weaver

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

~ Cynthia Ozick

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

~ Gail Sheehy

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

~ Charlotte Bunch

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.

~ Boethius

Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

~ Katherine Graham

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means what I want and what I fear.

~ Joan Didion

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

~ Louis Kronenberger

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

No one can figure out your worth but you.

~ Pearl Bailey

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

~ Philip James Bailey

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

~ H. G. Bohn

Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: To know one's self.

~ Diogenes

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

~ Robert Burns

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

~ William Shakespeare

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

~ Mark Batterson

Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.

~ Ankala V Subbarao

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.

~ David Brooks

The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract

~ Rick Riordan

Freedom is that which comes from knowledge, the freedom that comes from curiosity, the freedom that comes from the times when the first man did not refuse to look into a telescope and discovered other planets, the freedom that comes from those who tried relentlessly when all others said it was impossible. It is in this freedom that deviance has its roots.

~ Massimo Marino

Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.

~ Martin R. Lemieux

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Self-Knowledge is the Jewel of all Knowledge.-Serena Jade

~ Serena Jade

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Nate Silver

Knowledge is currency here....

~ Joanne Harris

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

~ Kevin Mitnick

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

~ Lee Iacocca

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

~ Dolley Madison

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

~ Leland Stanford

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

~ W. Edwards Deming

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

~ Henry Ford

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

~ Brian Eno

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

~ Vanna Bonta

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

~ Mariah Carey

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

~ Mikhail Bakunin

We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

~ Arthur Blank

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

~ David Hume