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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.
Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.
Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths; those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
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?
Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.