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:

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

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