A Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell
Canadian - Author
Born: September 3, 1963

The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals. It is merely subjective and is excluded from policies. The latter is objective - defined by science and promulgated by expert spokesmen. This objective knowledge is viewed as a commodity which can be refined... and fed into a process, now called decision-making. This new mythology of governance by the manipulation of knowledge-stock inevitably erodes reliance on government by people.

Ivan Illich

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

Ernest Sosa

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

Malcolm Gladwell

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-?destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence brings at once guilt and retribution, divine power only expiates; if the former threatens, the latter strikes; if the former is bloody, the latter is lethal without spilling blood

Walter Benjamin

What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

Symeon the New Theologian

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.

Benjamin Disraeli

For when is death not within our selves? And as Heracleitus says: “Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. The former when shifted are the latter, and again the latter when shifted are the former."

Heraclitus

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

Caroline Knapp

Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

James G. Stavridis

Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter the goal of every thought process. To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.

Max Planck

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Baruch Spinoza

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Mr. T

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