Knowledge Advantage Quotes

People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

I think it's good to know more than the average guy. If I'm in a bar now and some pretty girl is talking to some handsome 24-year-old man, I'll say, "Okay, who's the emperor after Caligula? What chief mistake did Marcus Aurelius make in choosing a successor?" He'll just look like an idiot. She'll just gravitate toward me, I'm thinking. It works in Detroit.

I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.

I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

One technical expert is worth twenty Communists.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience ends up with your money.

I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.