Failure to properly conceptualize the nature of knowledge assets condemns firms.
Knowledge Quotes
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Locke, Samuel Johnson and Einstein are all near the top, which gives the page its character: mostly people who thought about how we know things, rather than about how to feel clever. Johnson gives the most useful single line, in Boswell’s Life (1791): “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Wittgenstein, in On Certainty (1969), says that knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
A lot of the quotes people look for here are flagged. “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” is credited to Socrates; see the note on the Wisdom page. “Contempt prior to investigation” is credited to Einstein, and a line about putting the Lord at every turn in the refuge of a miracle is credited to Galileo.
This is the price you must pay for knowledge: You must understand and acknowledge its consequences.
He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Knowledge is a property of agents predisposing them to act in particular circumstances.