The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. – Chanakya
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. – Johannes Tauler
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. – H. L. Mencken
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T. S. Eliot
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. – Ali ibn Abi Talib
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. – Anton Chekhov
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. – Henry Ward Beecher
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. – Peter Drucker
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. – William James
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. – Aldous Huxley
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. – Peter Drucker
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. – Carl Jung
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey. – Marcel Proust
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce
