Jackie Scott, the Global Program Director at Rutgers Business School Executive Education, compiled 29 inspirational quotes about the pursuit of knowledge. The quotes are from influential figures like Albert Einstein, Malcolm Forbes, and Benjamin Franklin. Scott included the quotes to honor national Heart Month and hopes readers find inspiration. She invites people to share other quotes they love or learn more about Rutgers Business School's executive education programs.

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29THE 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!
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