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On Knowledge – Tacit and Explicit
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
Herman Helmholtz

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.
Charles T. Tart

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong

Peter F. Drucker on Knowledge
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and cooperation for force.

If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the 'bourgeois' under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

I think this statement would be consistent with our operating definition of knowledge, namely, "Knowledge is that which enables you to do things."

Now the definition of a manager is somebody who makes knowledge productive.

Don't talk about knowledge management. There is no such thing. There are only knowledge people.

Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.

The knowledge society will inevitably become far more competitive than any society we have known - for the simple reason that with knowledge being universally accessible, there are no excuses for non-performance…It is a society in which many more people than ever before can be successful. But it is therefore, by definition, also a society in which many more people can fail, or at least come second.

Systems and Learning Organizations
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can’t give you a formula for that.
Chet Atkins

Learning is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers, teachers…
Richard Bach

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A society needs only one generation to abandon the task of learning and transmitting its culture, for that culture to become an alien, lifeless irrelevance.
Margaret Thatcher

Past wisdom must not be a constraint, but something to be challenged.
Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett

Unlike most forms of geometric expansion, there is no reason to believe that the expansion of knowledge has any inherent limits.
Nathan Rosenberg

Wisdom
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon

The wise see knowledge and action as one.
Bhagavad-Gita

The greatest obstacle to progress is not the absence of knowledge, but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I am frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

The building up of children is really tearing down, while tearing down of elders is really building.
Talmud

Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. Eliot

The reasonable man accommodates himself to the ways of the world. The unreasonable man attempts to get the world to accommodate itself to his ways. Progress depends on unreasonable men.
George Bernard Shaw

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn.
Mark Twain

On Life and Success
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell

Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough. I can single-handedly move the world.
Archimedes

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Anthony Robbins

If a person says to you: “I have laboured but did not find,” do not believe it!
Talmud