Quotes About Knowledge

"What we do with what we know is what will separate us today in a world where information is abundant."

— Thomas Friedman

"Knowledge and information are crucial to creation."

— George Couros

"Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital."

— Paul Tudor Jones

"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more."

— Charlie Munger

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time. - none. Zero."

— Charlie Munger

"An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends."

— Benjamin Franklin

"You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom."

— Herbie Hancock

"Read 500 pages like this every week. That's how knowledge builds up, like compound interest."

— Warren Buffett

"But, unlike money, when you use knowledge or give it away, you don't lose it.'Transferring knowledge anywhere in the world is free and instant. Its value compounds over time faster than money. It can be converted into many things, including things that money can't buy, such as authentic relationships and high levels of subjective well-being. It helps you accomplish your goals faster and better. It's fun to acquire. It makes your brain work better. It expands your vocabulary, making you a better communicator. It helps you think bigger and beyond your circumstances. It puts your life in perspective by essentially helping you live many lives in one life through other people's experiences and wisdom."

— The five hour rule by Michael Simmons

"Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."

— Mark Zuckerberg

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."

— Bill Gates

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

— Plato

"Understand that real wealth is portable; it's knowledge."

— Steven Siliger

"Super-successful people know more than others do because they're constantly working to increase their self-awareness."

— Travis Bradberry

"Knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."

— Albert Einstein

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"

— Sir Richard Steele

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same."

— Martha Graham

"The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success."

— P.T. Barnum

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

— Henry Ford

"The coin of competition is knowledge"

— Richard R Elsworth, Leading with Purpose

"While wisdom requires education, education does not necessarily make people wise."

— Professor Charles Gragg

"Who knows something beautiful and does not pass it on is as guilty as one who knows something ugly and does pass it on."

— Talmud

"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

— Albert Einstein

"The more you know, the more prepared you will be when opportunity knocks. If you are lazy and while your time away, you would not know how to take advantage of opportunities even if they stared you in the face."

— Li Ka Shing

"Judgement can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyse the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature"

— B. C. Forbes

"Knowledge and skill are not things that you are born with but things that you can cultivate. You have the ability to become more intelligent, more artistic, more athletic, and more successful simply by focusing on the process, not the outcome. The daily choices you make will influence what you believe and the person you will become. It's not about the result, it's about becoming the type of person who gets to enjoy those results."

— Carol Dweck

"Rich people read for self-improvement, education and success."

— www.businessinsider.com

"Belief that abilities, intelligence, talent are developed so that they can lead to the creation of new and better ideas."

— George Couros

"To innovate, knowledge is crucial, because it takes the idea to a different level."

— George Couros

"Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens"

— Jimi Hendrix

"Creativity is never the creation of something from nothing."

— Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman