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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

29 Inspiring Quotes

by Jackie Scott

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Welcome! I have had the honor to work with some of the most innovative and amazing companies in the world. These companies have the curiosity, courage and commitment to challenge the status quo. While each company is different and their challenges are unique, they all have one thing in common - the pursuit of new knowledge and the desire to “rethink everything”. They understand that in order to be relevant today they cannot operate as they did yesterday. In honor of national “Heart Month” I’ve compiled a list of 29 of my best loved “Pursuit of Knowledge” quotes and I hope you find some inspiration in these. Have other quotes you love? Interested in learning more about our Executive Education experiences? I’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reach out jscott@business.rutgers.edu Jackie Scott, Global Program Director Rutgers Business School Executive Education

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1. “Once you stop learning, you start dying”

Albert Einstein

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2. “The purpose of an education is to replace an empty mind with an open one”

Malcolm Forbes

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3. “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn ”

Benjamin Franklin

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4. “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is

the ultimate competitive advantage ”

Jack Welch

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5. “The major barrier to skill acquisition isn't intellectual, it's emotional ”

Josh Kaufman

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6. “Human Intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe

by formal academic education ”

Sir Ken Robinson

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7. “Education isn’t something you can finish ”

Isaac Asimov

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8. “We now accept that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people

how to learn”

Peter Drucker

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9. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it ”

Amelia Earhart

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10. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it. ”

Aristotle

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11. “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn

how to do it. ”

Pablo Picasso

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12. “if you’re the smartest person in the room, your in the wrong room”

Unknown

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13. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible ”

Walt Disney

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14. “Imagination is more important than knowledge ”

Alert Einstein

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15. “The ones who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones

that do.”

Steve Jobs

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16. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”

Mahatma Gandhi

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17. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”

Bill Gates

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18. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”

Nelson Mandale

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19. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned

the secret of life”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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20. “I am still learning”

Michelangelo

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21. “I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every

experience. And learn from it. Life is never dull. ”

Oprah Winfrey

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22. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think

critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education ”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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23. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest . ”

Ben Franklin

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25. “We need to take our best ideas, our strongest intuitions, and we need to test

them. We need to measure whether we've been successful, and we have to be willing to fail, to be wrong, to start over again with

lessons learned ”

Angela Lee Duckworth

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25. “Creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it

with the same status.”

Sir Ken Robinson

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26. “Knowledge is your best weapon. Arm yourself”

Unknown

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27. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds

are not in your favor.”

Elon Musk

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28. “Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers,

but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even

when you don’t see it within yourself”

Unknown

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29. “May you always see the world through the eyes of a child.”

CJ Heck

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THANK YOU! jscott@business.rutgers.edu