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Knowledge is power; self-knowledge is an elixir.
Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information.
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See more
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as kno... See more
Theory of Notebooks
Wisdom is our capacity for understanding, and understanding is our ability to grasp the significance and to realise the relevance of what we know. Knowledge is important, but without the wisdom to use it in the right way, it is lifeless.
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
Remember that knowledge is a process, not a possession.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Building an Antilibrary: The Power of Unread Books
“Knowledge is different from all other resources. It makes itself constantly obsolete, so that today’s advanced knowledge is tomorrow’s ignorance.
Keith D. Swenson • Mastering the Unpredictable: How Adaptive Case Management Will Revolutionize the Way That Knowledge Workers Get Things Done
The emphasis in all these cases is on knowledge being “actionable” because of the business context, and on knowledge being a refinement of information because that’s how we extracted value from data. That may be a useful way of thinking about the value of information, but it’s pretty far from what knowledge has been during its 2,500 year history. T
... See moreDavid Weinberger • The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy
If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.