KNOWLEDGE IS POWER KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Ignorance is an intellectual disease while knowledge is an indispensable mental asset. It is better to be knowledgeable than reasonable. Paul Scott said that imagination is not enough knowledge is necessary. It is good to be informed and instructed because there is no delight in being a mediocre in your chosen career. Knowledge is the key to excellence. Hear Isaac D. Israeli.” It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us”. Knowledge is precious. The treasure of knowledge is priceless. Experts are hired because of their expertise. The coach brings up his team successfully because he knows his onions. Whatever you know and like to do, do it so well that people will be happy to pay you for it. Francis Bacon, an English politician and lawyer said that “Knowledge itself is power” You cannot be greater than what you know. What you know will make you be known. To underline this important point, Martin Luther King (Jr.) said that “time shall come when his four little kids would not be recognized by the colour of their skin but through the content of their brain”. A little extra knowledge makes a surprising difference. It will lift you above your rank and file for promotion and honour. Don’t settle for the average, “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius” (Arthur Conan Doyle). If you don’t know more than what you know at the nowness of now, you cannot go higher in life. Two wrings can never make a right. It is not right to do the right thing in a wrong way. Where knowledge is lacking, things are done in a wrong way. Where ignorance lingers, knowledge speeds. Your doing is a product of knowing, people that know what they are doing and do well what they are doing and do well what they know to do, succeed faster than people that do not know what they are doing and what they ought to do. Charles Morgan said that “as knowledge increases, wonder deepens”. A good brain begets a great bank account. Know what you ought to know and do, and do it well. Get proper understanding of your chosen endeavours in life. Success comes easily when you know what to do, when, where and how. Michelangelo said that “a man paints with his brain not with his hands”. Through knowledge, the sailor steers the ship on the sea, and driver guides the vehicle on the road. Knowledge creates confidence. Knowledge makes things easy to be done. James Agate said that “a professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it. An amateur is a man who can’t do job when does feel like it.” The greatest knowledge is self-discovery. Law Tse said that “ he who knows others is learned, who knows himself is wise”. Therefore know yourself. Discover your potentials, know your ‘wit-ends’ and weak-ends’. Know what you can you better than anyone else and what others can do better than you. This would help you to improve yourself and learn from people who are ahead of you. Learn what to do and what not to do. Learn from everyone. The wise when he speaks and the fool when he is wrong. Learn from others for no man has monopoly of wisdom. John Donne said that “no man is an island, intire of itself”. Share from the experience of others. Dombody said that “he who knows not and thinks he knows is a fool, shun him. But he who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows is wise, follow him”. Liberty is the absence of restraint and presence of opportunity. The liberty of life is the presence of opportunity you have. However, John F. Kennedy, a one-time US President said that “liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain” Use your liberty to acquire knowledge for knowledge brings liberty. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER – MSW There are three sets of people in this world: “They are those that learn from their mistakes, those that learn from other people’s mistakes, and those who do not learn at all”. Wisdom is out there crying for whoever wants to learn. Wherever you are, learn to learn from people. Seek and search for knowledge. Don’t live in the world with a closed mind. Things around us speak to us in wisdom and knowledge. Care to learn and listen. Horace wrote that you should “Seek not for words, seek only fact and thought, and crowding in will come to the words unsought” Ask questions from people that know more than you. Be an inquirer. Blair said that “willingness to be taught what we do not know is the sure pledge of growth both in knowledge and wisdom”. Learning provides intellectual embellishment, mental nourishment and personal development. Read. Roger Bacon said that “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Study. That is why Frances Bacon said that “studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability”. No man succeeds in life’s endeavours unless he is a fact-finder and ideas-learners. He who thinks he knows it all is under an intellectual delusion. Go the extra-mile in the quest for knowledge. “Life’s too short for chess”, so says Henry James Byron. So find a model in your chosen career and learn from him. Listen to him. Read about him to discover his secrets of success. Break lose from mental captivity through learning Anatole France said that “it is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot”. Ignorance is deadly an so if you are ignorant you are not in charge of your destiny but somebody or thing else is. Martin Luther King said that “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” therefore drink from the deep sea of knowledge and don’t swim in the ocean of naivety. Hear Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing”. Learn to learn more for knowledge is never ending. Socrates admitted that “all he knew was that he knew nothing that he was wise”. Keep on knowing. Keep on developing. Keep on improving in career choice. Success is standard. Any less thing is the taste of mediocre. Knowledge brings dignity to the dignitaries. The cementery of knowledge Josh Billings said that learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere wide awake on tiptoes” learn from what you see, hear and read. Learn from the great genius-artist, Michael Angelo who had a life long motto: “Still I am learning”. Your level of reading determines your level of thinking and skill of writing. Isaac D’Israeli said that “there is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking and art of writing”. Read on what you read and discover the gems of knowledge therein. Be an ardent seeker of knowledge. Sink or Swim in Knowledge Alfred Lord Tennyson said that it is wonderful to follow knowledge like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought” be an avid reader, a good reader and a reader of good books. Leonard Spencer said that “it is good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ………….the quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more”. Don’t misuse knowledge Knowledge used in the wrong way is worse than lack of it. Financial fraud and corruption are rife in big corporations companies. When people decide to rubbish their intelligence and integrity on the altar of greed, Mark Twain said that “soap and education are not as burdensome as massacre but they are more deadly in the long run” don’t misuse your knowledge. Benefit the world through what you know. Great minds invented great products for the development of mankind. As long as the world exists, generation upon generation will continue to enjoy from their remarkable achievements. Illiteracy is Mental Imprisonment Illiteracy is a mental imprisonment. If you are not educated, you may not be able to chart the course of your life. James Abram Garfield remarked that “next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained”. Education is an eye-opener, and the gate-way of knowledge. As William Ralph Inge hinted: “the aim of education is knowledge not of facts but values”. Perharps you think education is difficult to acquire? Listen to James A. Brewer: “the only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. Derek Bok said that “if you think that education is expensive, try ignorance”. Though the cost of learning is not very cheap, however, the value of education is for lifetime. As Arsitotle said “The roots of education are better but the fruit is sweet”. Determine to pay the price of acquiring essential knowledge for benefit of the future. Education is the best Legacy Education is the best legacy you can have and leave for others. John Dewey said that “education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself’. Lamenting about his education, Mike Tyson, former world Heavyweight Boxing Champion said in August 1990: “I was born in a ghetto and I grew up through hard way in the ghetto. I became the World Champion but I never had education. Now I am a millionaire but money cannot remove the level of illiteracy in me” Education is emancipation from ignorance and exploitation. Lord Rougham said that “eduction makes people easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern but impossible to enslave” Educated illiterates Knowledge puffs up” the wisdom of the wit is to be humble. Lord Chesterfields advised that you should “wear your learning in your pocket”. You will not know more than you know if you think you have known what you should know. Our society is filled with functional educated illiterates because many people have decided to sleep on the bed of mediocrity rather than sitting on the throne of knowledge. Quoting CNN International: “An educated man should know something “about everything and everything about something”. Be wise about what you know. Moliere said:” A knowledgeable fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool”. What you know is useless if you cannot make use of it. John Wooden said: “it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” what is the value of education if that doesn’t benefit you? Hear Herbert Spencer: “the great aim of education is not knowledge but action”. Share Knowledge with Others Learning is not final. What you know you know. What you don’t know you don’t know. You may not know more than you know until you make use of what you know to get what you don’t know. Share with others from what you know as each edition of Business Success does with you. You gain more from what you share than what you keep. Knowledge hoarded. He that waters others shall himself be watered “so says the bible. Bill gate, a computer magnet said “knowledge is power when it is shared”. If Bill Gates had refused to share his knowledge with the world through the establishment of Microsoft, he would not have become the richest man in the world today. Knowledge Versus Ignorance John Locke said that “the only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”. The knowledgeable is an enemy of the ignorant. “When a genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in the confederacy against him”. When the unenlightened people persecute the enlightened, the world suffers. Move with the right people for excellence dies in the camp of mediocrity. Know that knowledge gives birth to good ideas but good ideas are often buried in the territory of dream-killers. Learn to keep knowledge and knowledge will keep you. Remember that Socrates said: “Knowledge is power and power is might”. Ignorance is an intellectual disease while knowledge is an indispensable mental asset. It is better to be knowledgeable than reasonable. Paul Scott said that imagination is not enough knowledge is necessary. It is good to be informed and instructed because there is no delight in being a mediocre in your chosen career. Knowledge is the key to excellence. Hear Isaac D. Israeli.” It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us”. Knowledge is precious. The treasure of knowledge is priceless. Experts are hired because of their expertise. The coach brings up his team successfully because he knows his onions. Whatever you know and like to do, do it so well that people will be happy to pay you for it. Francis Bacon, an English politician and lawyer said that “Knowledge itself is power” You cannot be greater than what you know. What you know will make you be known. To underline this important point, Martin Luther King (Jr.) said that “time shall come when his four little kids would not be recognized by the colour of their skin but through the content of their brain”. A little extra knowledge makes a surprising difference. It will lift you above your rank and file for promotion and honour. Don’t settle for the average, “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius” (Arthur Conan Doyle). If you don’t know more than what you know at the nowness of now, you cannot go higher in life. Two wrings can never make a right. It is not right to do the right thing in a wrong way. Where knowledge is lacking, things are done in a wrong way. Where ignorance lingers, knowledge speeds. Your doing is a product of knowing, people that know what they are doing and do well what they are doing and do well what they know to do, succeed faster than people that do not know what they are doing and what they ought to do. Charles Morgan said that “as knowledge increases, wonder deepens”. A good brain begets a great bank account. Know what you ought to know and do, and do it well. Get proper understanding of your chosen endeavours in life. Success comes easily when you know what to do, when, where and how. Michelangelo said that “a man paints with his brain not with his hands”. Through knowledge, the sailor steers the ship on the sea, and driver guides the vehicle on the road. Knowledge creates confidence. Knowledge makes things easy to be done. James Agate said that “a professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it. An amateur is a man who can’t do job when does feel like it.” The greatest knowledge is self-discovery. Law Tse said that “ he who knows others is learned, who knows himself is wise”. Therefore know yourself. Discover your potentials, know your ‘wit-ends’ and weak-ends’. Know what you can you better than anyone else and what others can do better than you. This would help you to improve yourself and learn from people who are ahead of you. Learn what to do and what not to do. Learn from everyone. The wise when he speaks and the fool when he is wrong. Learn from others for no man has monopoly of wisdom. John Donne said that “no man is an island, intire of itself”. Share from the experience of others. Dombody said that “he who knows not and thinks he knows is a fool, shun him. But he who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child; teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep; wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows is wise, follow him”. Liberty is the absence of restraint and presence of opportunity. The liberty of life is the presence of opportunity you have. However, John F. Kennedy, a one-time US President said that “liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain” Use your liberty to acquire knowledge for knowledge brings liberty. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER – MSW There are three sets of people in this world: “They are those that learn from their mistakes, those that learn from other people’s mistakes, and those who do not learn at all”. Wisdom is out there crying for whoever wants to learn. Wherever you are, learn to learn from people. Seek and search for knowledge. Don’t live in the world with a closed mind. Things around us speak to us in wisdom and knowledge. Care to learn and listen. Horace wrote that you should “Seek not for words, seek only fact and thought, and crowding in will come to the words unsought” Ask questions from people that know more than you. Be an inquirer. Blair said that “willingness to be taught what we do not know is the sure pledge of growth both in knowledge and wisdom”. Learning provides intellectual embellishment, mental nourishment and personal development. Read. Roger Bacon said that “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Study. That is why Frances Bacon said that “studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability”. No man succeeds in life’s endeavours unless he is a fact-finder and ideas-learners. He who thinks he knows it all is under an intellectual delusion. Go the extra-mile in the quest for knowledge. “Life’s too short for chess”, so says Henry James Byron. So find a model in your chosen career and learn from him. Listen to him. Read about him to discover his secrets of success. Break lose from mental captivity through learning Anatole France said that “it is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot”. Ignorance is deadly an so if you are ignorant you are not in charge of your destiny but somebody or thing else is. Martin Luther King said that “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” therefore drink from the deep sea of knowledge and don’t swim in the ocean of naivety. Hear Alexander Pope: “A little learning is a dangerous thing”. Learn to learn more for knowledge is never ending. Socrates admitted that “all he knew was that he knew nothing that he was wise”. Keep on knowing. Keep on developing. Keep on improving in career choice. Success is standard. Any less thing is the taste of mediocre. Knowledge brings dignity to the dignitaries. The cementery of knowledge Josh Billings said that learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere wide awake on tiptoes” learn from what you see, hear and read. Learn from the great genius-artist, Michael Angelo who had a life long motto: “Still I am learning”. Your level of reading determines your level of thinking and skill of writing. Isaac D’Israeli said that “there is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking and art of writing”. Read on what you read and discover the gems of knowledge therein. Be an ardent seeker of knowledge. Sink or Swim in Knowledge Alfred Lord Tennyson said that it is wonderful to follow knowledge like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought” be an avid reader, a good reader and a reader of good books. Leonard Spencer said that “it is good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations ………….the quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more”. Don’t misuse knowledge Knowledge used in the wrong way is worse than lack of it. Financial fraud and corruption are rife in big corporations companies. When people decide to rubbish their intelligence and integrity on the altar of greed, Mark Twain said that “soap and education are not as burdensome as massacre but they are more deadly in the long run” don’t misuse your knowledge. Benefit the world through what you know. Great minds invented great products for the development of mankind. As long as the world exists, generation upon generation will continue to enjoy from their remarkable achievements. Illiteracy is Mental Imprisonment Illiteracy is a mental imprisonment. If you are not educated, you may not be able to chart the course of your life. James Abram Garfield remarked that “next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained”. Education is an eye-opener, and the gate-way of knowledge. As William Ralph Inge hinted: “the aim of education is knowledge not of facts but values”. Perharps you think education is difficult to acquire? Listen to James A. Brewer: “the only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. Derek Bok said that “if you think that education is expensive, try ignorance”. Though the cost of learning is not very cheap, however, the value of education is for lifetime. As Arsitotle said “The roots of education are better but the fruit is sweet”. Determine to pay the price of acquiring essential knowledge for benefit of the future. Education is the best Legacy Education is the best legacy you can have and leave for others. John Dewey said that “education is not a preparation for life, it is life itself’. Lamenting about his education, Mike Tyson, former world Heavyweight Boxing Champion said in August 1990: “I was born in a ghetto and I grew up through hard way in the ghetto. I became the World Champion but I never had education. Now I am a millionaire but money cannot remove the level of illiteracy in me” Education is emancipation from ignorance and exploitation. Lord Rougham said that “eduction makes people easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern but impossible to enslave” Educated illiterates Knowledge puffs up” the wisdom of the wit is to be humble. Lord Chesterfields advised that you should “wear your learning in your pocket”. You will not know more than you know if you think you have known what you should know. Our society is filled with functional educated illiterates because many people have decided to sleep on the bed of mediocrity rather than sitting on the throne of knowledge. Quoting CNN International: “An educated man should know something “about everything and everything about something”. Be wise about what you know. Moliere said:” A knowledgeable fool is a greater fool than an ignorant fool”. What you know is useless if you cannot make use of it. John Wooden said: “it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts” what is the value of education if that doesn’t benefit you? Hear Herbert Spencer: “the great aim of education is not knowledge but action”. Share Knowledge with Others Learning is not final. What you know you know. What you don’t know you don’t know. You may not know more than you know until you make use of what you know to get what you don’t know. Share with others from what you know as each edition of Business Success does with you. You gain more from what you share than what you keep. Knowledge hoarded. He that waters others shall himself be watered “so says the bible. Bill gate, a computer magnet said “knowledge is power when it is shared”. If Bill Gates had refused to share his knowledge with the world through the establishment of Microsoft, he would not have become the richest man in the world today. Knowledge Versus Ignorance John Locke said that “the only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it”. The knowledgeable is an enemy of the ignorant. “When a genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in the confederacy against him”. When the unenlightened people persecute the enlightened, the world suffers. Move with the right people for excellence dies in the camp of mediocrity. Know that knowledge gives birth to good ideas but good ideas are often buried in the territory of dream-killers. Learn to keep knowledge and knowledge will keep you. Remember that Socrates said: “Knowledge is power and power is might”.
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