Best knowledge & know-how Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.”

Knows Men Giving Science Lying Knowledge Know How Drug Doctors Shops Relief Helpful Physicians Consolation Console

Author:Anatole France

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”

Knows Men Mind Science Knowledge Know How Inspire Awe Old Man Reverence

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”

“To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.”

Knows Wisdom Knowledge Know How Judging Knowledge Wisdom Unwise

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The goal is to know how not-to-know.”

Knows Goal Consciousness Knowledge Know How

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.”

Knows Doe Knowledge Know How Sticks Dust

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.”

Knows Want Use Knowledge Know How Shapes Despair Mark Paint Accurate Portraits

Author:Francis Bacon

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”

Knows Made Matter Feelings Science Lost Knowledge Know How Rainbow Savages Knowledge Gained Gaining Knowledge

Author:Mark Twain

“To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.”

Knows Doe Self Wisdom Order Knowledge Know How Knowing Self Esteem Discipline Injustice Seeking Confusion Scholar Self Discipline

Author:Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.”

Knows Men Wells Littles Knowledge Know How Sick

Author:Witter Bynner

“If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.”

Ifs Knows Giving Realizing Knowledge Know How Talent Something Better Respecting Others Better Than You

Author:Hortense Canady

“For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.”

Knows Use Purpose Knowledge Know How Draws Currents Inward

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.”

Thinking Knows Matter Happens Together Law Science Next Situation Knowledge Know How Conditions Century Theory Fit Limits Normal Extremes Complexity 21st Century Unified

Author:Stephen Hawking

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

Knows Important Sometimes Science Forget Knowledge Know How Accounts Importance

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”

Knows Believe Would Be Science Belief Opinion Knowledge Know How Mets Possession Atoms Colleagues Nobody Knows Amiable

Author:Albert Einstein

“The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.”

Knows Important Science Asks Answers Knowledge Know How Objects Discovery Concern

Author:John N. Bahcall

“There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.”

“Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.”

Knows Use Knowledge Know How Limitation Academic

Author:Myron Tribus

“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”

Knows Feels Wells Knowledge Know How Draws Canvas

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

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