Knowledge (22)

Aphorisms 20

I love quotes… but, in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it's worthless. — Tony Robbins Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Where faith falls short, statistics help. — Werner Ehrenforth Everything that is merely probable is probably wrong. — René Descartes It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. — Stephen Hawking To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect. — Peter F. Drucker We do not admire what we cannot understand. — Marianne Moore A good book is an event in my life. — Stendhal The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. — Thomas Paine There's no inherent meaning in information — it's what we do with that information that matters. — Beau Lotto Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. — John A. Morrison Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T.S. Eliot To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. — Lao Tzu Wisdom is extracting facts from data, then identifying which facts matter. — Anonymous I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once. — C.S. Lewis The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them. — Giacomo Leopardi The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. — Harry Truman Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. — Alfred North Whitehead A person who knows an action is moral yet fails to act accordingly is superior to the one who acts morally without… — Farabi

Short Writings 2

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… — Charles Spurgeon To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer