Knowledgeable Person Quotes

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Inspirational, Flames, Political

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press

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• The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.

  Albert Camus

  Ignorant, May, Domain

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• There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Silence, Three, Forbearance

  "'Bihar al-Anwar' ('Seas of Lights')". Hadith book by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, Volume 2,

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• I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Years, Discipline

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• The reason the Betsy DeVos case was the centerpiece case for the Democrats wasn't about her weakness as a knowledgeable person on education policy.

  David Brooks

  Weakness, Reason, Cases

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There are four different kinds of power in a communication: position power (the CEO talking to her direct reports), emotion power (passion sometimes rules the day), expertise (people often listen to the most knowledgeable person in the room), and conversational power (the subtlest, this is the ability to direct the conversation through body language).

  Nick Morgan

  Communication, Passion, Talking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Mean, Player

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

  A. R. Rahman

  Philosophy, Heart, Sorrow

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• The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Government

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• The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Men, Exclamation Marks

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• The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

  Francois Rabelais

  Education, Knowledge, Dark

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• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Political, Ambitious

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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