Quotes about Knowledge

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

every month all the insurance contracts her company issues. Yes, she reads the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience has taught

One can, for example, hire mere technical ability in engineering, accountancy, architecture or any other profession at nominal salaries. But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people — that person is headed for higher earning power.

These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering — to personality and the ability to lead people.

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience