Knowledge

To be able to enjoy one"s past life is to live twice. Hoc est vivere bis vita posse priore frui. Marcus Valerius Martialis - Roman poet (c. 40-103), from "Epigrammaton libri duodecim", book X, epigramme 23 (c. 85-103)

You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), at the BRK Annual Meeting (May 2007)

You have to think for yourself. Warren Buffett - American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in U.S. News and World Report (June 1994)

You can observe a lot just by watching. Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra - American baseball player and -manager (1925-2015)

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver. The Bible, Proverbs 16:16 (NIV)

You can learn a lot just by asking. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)

Tell me something that"s true, that almost nobody agrees with you on. Peter A. Thiel - German-born American investor and company founder: PayPal (b. 1967), in a discussion with entrepreneur and LinkedIn"s co-founder Reid Hoffman (2012), Quotations book 2019

A wise man has great power. A man who has knowledge increases his strength. The Bible, Proverbs 24:5 (NIRV) - Quotations book 2019

Today progress happens so fast that when someone declares a problem to be completely impracticable and unsolvable in the next moment he is interrupted by someone else who has already solved and realized the Problem. attributed to Albert Einstein - German physicist, Nobel prize in Physics 1921 (1879-1955)

Il faut savoir et voir, et il faut voir et savoir. Claude Lanzmann - réalisateur et documentaire français (1925-2018), d"après une interview dans "Cahiers du cinéma", n ° 374, (juillet / août 1985)

Minds are like parachutes - they function only when they are open. wisdom, often attributed to Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar - Scottish entrepreneur and Whisky destiller (1864-1930), Quotations book 2018

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one"s prejudices. Oscar Wilde - Irish writer (1854-1900), from his fairytale "The Remarkable Rocket", published in "Der The Happy Prince and Other Stories" (1888), Quotations book 2018

Never delegate understanding. Eames Demetrios – American artist and photographer (b. 1962), from "An Eames Primer" (2001), a book about his grandparents, the designer couple Charles and Ray Eames, Quotations book 2019

What the pupil must learn, if he learns anything at all, is that the world will do most of the work for you, provided you cooperate with it by identifying how it really works and aligning with those realities. If we do not let the world teach us, it teaches us a lesson. attributed to Joseph Tussman - American philosopher and educator (1914-2005)

Someone came to the wise Socrates and said: "Listen Socrates, I have to tell you something!" "Hold on!", the wise man stopped him. "Did you put through the three sieves what you want to tell me?" "Three sieves?", the other one asked in amazement. "Yes, my friend! Let"s try if this, you want to tell me, passes through the three sieves: The first sieve is the one of truth. Did you examine...

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. wisdom, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci - Italian polymath (1452 - 1519), Quotations book 2018

For Knowledge itself is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. Sir Francis Bacon - English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), from "De Haeresibus" ("Of Heresies") in "Meditationes sacrae" (1597)

Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness, but perseverance all can have. Woodrow Wilson - American politician, 1913-21 28th president, Nobel Peace prize 1919 (1856-1924), from his shorthand diary of 1876