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“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.”

“Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.”

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

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

“Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.”

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Author:Richard Pascale

“The real objective isn't just "knowledge" or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.”

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

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

“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

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

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

“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

“Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.”

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

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

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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Author:Aristophanes

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

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Author:Aristotle

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.”

“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”

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Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.”

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Book:Points of View

Source: Points of View

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.”

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Author:Bathsua Makin

“Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.”

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Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

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Author:Arthur Keith

“Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.”

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Book:Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

Source: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

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Author:Anna Brackett

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.”

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Author:Emilie du Chatelet

“No one can take it away from you.”

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Author:B. B. King

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

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Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John

“He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.”

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Book:The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq

Source: The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq

“Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

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Author:B. B. King

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book