FAMOUS QUOTES

Knowledge and Experience Quotes


“Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger



“No enemy is worse than bad advice”
Sophocles



“Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.”

Somerset Maugham



“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
Diogenes Laertius



“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.”
Meg Whitman



“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt



“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Alvin Toffler (author, futurist)



“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
Samuel Johnson



“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”
Oscar Wilde



“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein



“The best training in the world doesn’t make a difference if you
can’t find the information you need.”

Barbara Hemphill, Hemphill Productivity Institute



“We don’t confine ourselves to just one way of thinking our way out of a problem.”
Takeshi Yoshida, Toyota



“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.”
Mary Tyler Moore



“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
Chinese Proverb



“There is a time and a place for everything.”
A. Barclay



“What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?”
German Proverb



“You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.”
Seneca (4BC-65AD), Philosopher & Statesman



“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley



“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”
Yogi Berra



“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”
Seneca



“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.”

Henry Ford



“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
Frank Zappa



“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein



“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.”
George Patton



“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
Coco Chanel



“. . . the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing
is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Theodore Roosevelt



“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
Rene Descartes



“First see the hare, then loose the falcon.”
Chinese proverb



“Caution should be combined with decisiveness. As the saying goes,
before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.”

Yegor Ligachev



“In a time of turbulence and change, it is more time than ever that knowledge is power.”
John F. Kennedy



“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”
Elbert Hubbard



“Sometimes a person’s mind is stretched by a new idea and never does go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendall Holmes



“This taught me a lesson, but I’m not sure what it is.”
John McEnroe