“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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Wise Quotes — page 229 of 916
“Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.”
“The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.”
“Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.”
“Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.”
“Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.”
“Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.”
“If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.”
“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”
“Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.”
“The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.”
“The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.”
“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.”
“An empty man is full of himself.”
“The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.”
“the smallest part is worthy of the whole.”
“Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.”
“We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.”
“The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.”
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”