Quotes About Knowledge Production

#1. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

J. Jack Halberstam

#2. The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

Livy

#3. Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive.

Joel Salatin

#4. I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#5. Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

Immanuel Kant

#6. In an age of increasingly mechanized production, the genesis of scientific knowledge remains an unyieldingly, obstreperously hand-hewn process. It is among the most human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanizing effects of technology, science remains our last stand against it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#7. We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms, it 'excludes', it 'represses'... in fact power produces, it produces reality, it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth.

Michel Foucault

#8. Never abandon as hopeless something you've never tried.

David Dalglish

#9. It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

#10. Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

#11. Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.

Brian Tracy

#12. Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

Peter Drucker

#13. If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Alvin Toffler

#14. I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers

#15. Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.

Tulsi Tanti

#16. The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

W. Edwards Deming

#17. Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Alfred Marshall

#18. I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

#19. Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Kenneth Arrow

#20. Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity does not know how to handle its knowledge or how to resolve the problems of production and division of goods.

Czeslaw Milosz

#21. Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look.

John Lahr

#22. Going into 'Details' magazine to pitch concepts for a potential photo shoot was one of the most nerve-wracking things I had ever done. I didn't really know what one did in a pitch, how they were structured, etc., and that freaked me out big time.

Brad Goreski

#23. Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#24. While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

Ellen Willis

#25. Theories are just disposable tools in the production of knowledge

Manuel Castells

#26. I don't like the idea of something where you have to depend upon the integrity of the man and not the integrity of the institution.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#27. When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: All human beings by nature desire to know.

Matthew B. Crawford

#28. The basic economic resource - the means of production -
is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
It is and will be knowledge.

Peter Drucker

#29. Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#30. Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#31. The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Peter Drucker

#32. Thy shall not envy any person.
Each person has his or her unique calling and divine purpose to fulfill.
Follow your own path.

Lailah Gifty Akita