Quotes about Knowledge

If you are your only source of information and ideas, you're in trouble.

Charles "Tremendous" Jones said that the only difference between who you are today and the person you will be in five years will come from the books you read and the people you associate with.

So why do some people emerge as leaders while others can't influence no matter how hard they try? I believe that several factors come into play: 1. Character—who they are 2. Relationships—who they know 3. Knowledge—what they know 4. Intuition—what they feel 5. Experience—where they've been 6. Past Success—what they've done 7. Ability—what they can do

Experience isn't the best teacher—evaluated experience is.

the difference between who you are today and who you will be in five years will be the people you spend time with and the books you read.

Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...

The measure of a great teacher isn't what he or she knows; it's what the students know.

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.