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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
Sep 17, 2025
Sharing knowledge is not part of Western culture
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without loosing something.
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.
I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge.
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
The only irreplaceable capital an organization possesses is the knowledge and ability of its people. The productivity of that capital depends on how effectively people share their competence with those who can use it.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.
Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.
Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.
Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.
My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.
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