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“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.”

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Author:Booker T. Washington

“Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.”

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Author:Joseph Paxton

“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.”

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Book:The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

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Book:Freedom and the Liberal Arts

Source: Freedom and the Liberal Arts

“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”

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Author:J. Paul Getty

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”

“An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.”

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Book:Principle Centered Leadership

Source: Principle Centered Leadership

“Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.”

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Author:George Santayana

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

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Author:Theodore Parker

“I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”

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Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear”

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Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.”

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Author:Stuart Wilde

“What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.”

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Author:Hamilton Wright Mabie

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”

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Book:Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

“Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.”

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Author:Abbott Lawrence Lowell

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

“I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.”

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Author:Mother Jones

“In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.”

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Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.”

Certain Differences Knowledge Qualitative

Book:Capital: An Abridged Edition

Source: Capital: An Abridged Edition

“The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

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Author:John Naisbitt

“Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.”

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Book:Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.”

Giving Sometimes Peace Knowledge Memorable

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing expertise and knowledge.”

Way Knowledge Expertise

Author:Owen Arthur

“You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.”

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Author:George Matthew Adams

“What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.”

Knows Knowledge Tomorrow Weather

Author:Berthold Auerbach

“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.”

Wisdom Knowledge Eternal Intellectual Rational Apprehension Temporal Things

Author:Saint Augustine

“Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.”

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Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.”

Men May Purpose Knowledge Branches Good Man

Book:Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia

Source: Two Discourses Preached Before the University of Cambridge, on Commencement Sunday, July 1, 1810: And a Sermon Preached Before the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; at Their Tenth Anniversary, July 12, 1810. To which are Added Christian Researches in Asia

“In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.”

Mean Eye Knowledge Seeing Objects

Book:The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille

Source: The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille

“Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.”

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Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.”

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Author:John Maurice Clark

“The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.”

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Book:Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion

Source: Aids to reflection in the formation of a manly character on the several grounds of prudence, morality, and religion

“A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.”

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Author:Thomas Dreier

“Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.”

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Author:Robert Falconer

“Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.”

“If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.”

Ifs Knows Knowledge Boss

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.”

Turns Knowledge Greatness

Author:Baltasar Gracian