Warren Bennis Quotes

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.

We have so much information but maybe we don’t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don’t need young museums but we do need holy young people.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

Knowledge must become capability.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse.

Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.