Life Management Insights

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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