To the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name knowledge - Ambrose Bierce
To succeed in exploiting your knowledge you do need vision, initiative, enthusiasm and evangelism around a coherent framework. And for this you do need Knowledge Leaders, wherever they happen to be in an organization (Chief Knowledge Officers: Do You Need Them? No. 13, Sept 1997).
To speak of KM systems - i.e. knowledge-being-managed-by-a-system - is to subject the precious jewel of knowledge to the inferior disciplines of management and IT - Mick James, Knowledge Management, p18, April 2002
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge - Sir Benjamin Disraeli
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day - Lao-Tzu
Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise - Welsh proverb
Thinking about it most of the innovation in KM has come from engineering...narrative rich problem solving cultures - Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2009/08/kmaus09_final_session_…
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge - Bertrand Russell.
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so - Mark Twain
The role of leadership in a knowledge intensive company is to provide meaning through business alignment and to create a knowledge-friendly environment - Jerry Baker, National Semiconductor Corporation (1996)