Tons of KM Quotes

§All men by nature desire to know – Aristotle

§If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas - G.B.Shaw

§Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young - Henry Ford

§Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life - Lord MaCaulay

§If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth - Sir Alan Herbert

§If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it - Margaret Fuller

§It is written that he, who governs well, leads the blind; But that he, who teaches, gives them eyes - David O.McKay

§The value of any network increases in proportion to the square of the number of people using it, so a network with five hundred people attached to it is a hundred times as useful as one with only fifty people attached - Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3com

§Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success
- Henry Ford

§Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary, knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion - Daniel Joseph Boorstin

§The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment - Albert Einstein

§By sharing knowledge you empower [others] to act on their own. Shared knowledge enables people to take a risk to expand an idea and to venture to a new horizon - Sheila M. Bethel


§By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn - Latin Proverb

§To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom
- Sid Mendenhall

§The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand - Frank Herbert

§The best-educated people are those who are always learning, always absorbing knowledge from every possible source and at every opportunity

§Have you ever been so busy driving, that you had no time to take gas - Stephen Covey

§Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within - Ralph J. Cudworth

§If you want to be remembered for ever, share your knowledge – Chinese Proverb

§A nation is advanced in proportion to the education and intelligence spread among the masses
– Swami Vivekananda


§An investment in knowledge pays the best interest -Benjamin Franklin

§Knowledge is Action -The Bhagavad Gita

§We know accurately only when we know little. With knowledge, doubt increases
- Goethe

§To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step towards knowledge – Benjamin Disraeli

§If little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
-Thomas Henry Huxley

§The great end of knowledge is not knowledge, but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley

§Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it - Samuel Johnson

§Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value - Louis L’Amour


§Knowledge will forever govern ignorance – James Madison

§I collaborate. Therefore I know – KM Magazine

§Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes – Peter Senge

§Knowledge is commonly socially constructed, through collaborative efforts towards shared objectives or by dialogues and challenges brought about by different persons' perspectives
- G. Salomon

§Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know what one knows and what one does not know
- Confucius

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving
- Albert Einstein

The age-old levers of competition - labour, capital and land - are being supplemented by knowledge, and the most successful companies in the future will be those that learn how to exploit knowledge (about customer behaviour, markets, economics and technology) to...renew the way they define themselves, think and operate. - Former IBM chairman Lou Gerstner

Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of GE stated, "You need to gather the knowledge of individuals, share those ideas and celebrate the sharing. That, in the end, is how a company becomes great."

“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds"- Alexander Graham Bell

IDEO - Innovation is only through teams...

APJ Abdul Kalam - The ability to create and maintain the knowledge infrastructure, develop knowledge workers and enhance their productivity through creation, and nurturing and exploitation of new knowledge will be the key factors in a nation becoming a knowledge superpower. - Igniting India's Mind - Vision 2020 - The Week (December 2003)

The age-old levers of competition - labour, capital and land - are being supplemented by knowledge, and the most successful companies in the future will be those that learn how to exploit knowledge (about customer behaviour, markets, economics and technology) to...renew the way they define themselves, think and operate. - Former IBM chairman, Lou Gerstner

If you are still hungry for thought-provoking 'food', I'll be back with more as and when I get them!!! :)