Posts Tagged ‘Knowledge’
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will.
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
Vine Deloria
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and *then* do your best.
W(illiam) Edwards Deming
If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
W(illiam) Edwards Deming
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. … the unique and the absurd, the wise and [the] fragments of stupidity.
Vartan Gregorian
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper