Management Insights

Management Quotes: Knowledge Management

• Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. -- Anonymous

• Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you have her soul. -- Anonymous

• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. -- Josh Billings

• Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield

• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. -- Winston Churchill

• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -- Leonardo da Vinci

• A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. -- Roald Dahl

• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. -- The Doctor, Timewyrm: Genesys, author, John Peel

• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. -- Earl of Chesterfield

• "In the Internet Age, Information is Cheap. Education is Expensive", - Med Jones

• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. -- Albert Einstein

• The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogren and stupidity. -- Harlan Ellison

• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. -- Engineer's Motto

• We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. -- English Proverb

• Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. -- Euripides

• You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance. -- Edward Flaherty

• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. -- Victor Hugo

• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? -- Thomas Henry Huxley

• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. -- Thomas Henry Huxley

• In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. -- Robert G. Ingersoll

• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James

• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James

• Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. -- Albert Einstein

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. -- Albert Einstein

• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson

• Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection. -- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963

• Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. -- Stanislaw J. Lec

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. -- Oscar Levant

• The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein

• We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses. -- Bonnie Lin

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Abraham Lincoln

• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -- Abraham Lincoln

• Know thyself. -- Linnaeus

• Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. -- Konrad Lorenz

• A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. -- Michael Garrett Marino

• If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. -- Judith Martin, "Miss Manners" columnist and author

• We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbilt

• I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton, Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

• You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. -- Dorothy Parker

• I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. -- Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly

• Look alive. Here comes a buzzard. -- Pogo, character in "Pogo," comic strip by Walt Kelly

• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -- Lady Stella Reading

• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell

• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. -- Carl Sagan

• Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- George Bernard Shaw

• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. -- George Bernard Shaw

• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. -- Gertrude Stein

• But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for. -- Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897

• When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. -- Johnathan Swift

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me? -- Gwynn Thomas

• You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. -- James Thurber

• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. -- Henrik Tikkanen

• I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know." -- Mark Twain

• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -- Mark Twain

• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -- Mark Twain

• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire

• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." -- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

• The truth is more important than the facts. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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