Knowledge

I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

When you know a thing, hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, allow that you do not know it. This is knowledge.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

An open heart is an open mind.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Only he who knows his weakness will ever become strong.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

The key to success is failure.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own reason.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

We see things not as they are, but as we are.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Think before you think.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

To find a needle in a haystack is simple; you just have to remove the hay.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything — and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Youth is wasted on the young.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.