#knowledge

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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

— Peter Drucker

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Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

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We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ↗

— William Glasser

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight. ↗

— Chuck Yeager

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

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Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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