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  • Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

  • Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

    Life   Education   Wise  
    'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141
  • Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

    Knowledge   Men   Mind  
    'The Task' (1785) bk. 6 'The Winter Walk at Noon' l. 89
  • Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

    "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 65), April 16, 2002.
  • Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

    Wise   Reading   Style  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.292
  • Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

    Real   Men   Hype  
    "Why Do We All Praise Startups When They Receive Funding?" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 19, 201.
  • At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.

    Interview with Mike Powell, pitchfork.com. October 10, 2011.
  • Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)
  • Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

    Work   Taken   Butterfly  
  • Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  • How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.

    Wisdom   Book   Thinking  
    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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