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Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!

Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

To attain knowledge, add things every day To attain wisdom, remove things every day

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

To get to know, to discover, to publish-this is the destiny of a scientist.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.

To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

To know all things is not permitted.

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem.

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.