Knowledge and Wisdom Quotes

This is a page of quotes that we have come across in our work that we find inspiring, especially in the context of effective knowledge management and the wise application of knowledge.

The list of quotes will grow by the week from January 2010, one by one,so please keep informed. We hope you will also find some inspiration and some deeper insights. Let's start:

August 2010

1. Education is the key to the survival of the human race

2. A stable system, whether it's a society or an ecology, doesn't change readily; it's committed to the status quo

3. No matter how hard you may plan, life has a plan for you

4. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value" - Einstein

July 2010

1. If habits are thousands of times stronger than desires, what chance has a KM vision unless we can change our knowledge working routines?

2. Always remember the simplicity of wisdom in our world of complex knowledge.

3. Once you put a label to something, you separate it, and it loses its authentic place in the whole.

June 2010

1. 'Every successful business starts out as a movie in someone's mind'.

2. "The web has fundamentally changed the economics of knowledge".

3. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle teaches 'when you change the way you look at something, the thing you look at changes in response'.

4. Intuition is the faculty of knowing before you think.

5. Every day millions of people use Twitter to create, share and discover information.

6. Our experiences colour what we know

7. Responsibility means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now

May 2010

1. "I never understand why some people think writing is dismal. To me, its a love letter to the world".

2. "The practical dreamers have always been, and always will be, the pattern-makers of civilisation".

3. "We have harnessed the ether, and made it serve as a means of instantaneous communication with any part of the world".

4. "On principle-centred KM, principles will apply at all times and in all places. They are timeless, they uplift, they ennoble and they inspire us"

April 2010

1. "Some see things as they are and ask why? Others dream things that never were and ask why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

2. "I don't believe, I know" - Carl Jung

3. "A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle" Kahlil Gibran

4. "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." - Sandara Carey

5. “All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.” Arthur Aufderheide

6. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle(384 BC - 322 BC)Greek Philosopher

7. "To succeed in this economy organizations must transform themselves from knowledge-hoarding hierarchies to knowledge-sharing networks" Art Murray

8. "An ideal is an idea you have just fallen in love with" James Allen

9. "What gets rewarded gets done" Jack Welch

March 2010

1. "The only thing that gives an organization a competitive edge, the only thing that is sustainable, is what it knows, how it uses what it knows and how fast it can know something new!”- Larry Prusak

2. "Learning inside must be equal to or greater than change outside the organization - or the organization is in decline and may not survive" - Jack Welch

3. 'Relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always' Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. 'In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others' Deuteronomy Rabbah

5. 'Truth is the highest and most perfect thought'

February 2010

1. The greatest business of life is thinking. The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts...Bovee

2. What can be done through the web, will be done through the web

3. Learning is not compulsory, neither is survival...W Edwards Deming

4. The study of the best that has been thought in the world gives supreme pleasure

5. The hardest work is to succeed in bringing about the right mental attitude

6. There is a great difference between simply thinking, and directing our thoughts 'consciously, systematically and constructively'.

7. Knowledge is Unity. Ignorance is diversity...Swami Vivekananda

8. LUCK is a good acronym for 'Labouring under Certain Knowledge'

9. Only that which we do ignorantly we ought to do knowingly, and better.

10. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

January 2010

1. Wisdom is timeless and doesn't change, knowledge changes over time.

2. The greatest knowledge you can gain is knowledge of the Truth

3. If only I knew then what I know now

4. In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed...Charles Darwin