External knowledge Quotes

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

I only know what I read in the papers.

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

I know everything except myself.

Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.

That which is received from without can be compared with knowledge. It leads to believing, which is seldom strong enough to motivate to action. That which is confirmed from within after it is contacted from without, or that which is directly perceived from within (which is my way) can be compared with wisdom. It leads to a knowing, and action goes right along with it.

Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning is for the cultivation of oneself, just as Western learning is for the handling of worldly affairs.

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

Most innovation comes from outside your industry applied to your own

The information is in the people, not in your head.

I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

When you are not part of an industry, your knowledge of that field is based on what you read and hear and on the stereotypes that are attached to it.