Know How Quotes

“All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.”
― Paul Gauguin, The Writings of a Savage

“There is a big difference between knowledge and know-how. One, gives insight on how to do something, the other is actually being able to do it”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“What had started it, the mess this week? A white cop shot an unarmed black boy three times and killed him. Good old American know-how on display: We do marvels, we do injustice, and our hands were always busy.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.”
― Kathryn Pyne Addelson, Impure Thoughts: Essays on Philosophy, Feminism, and Ethics

“Knowing how things work reduces the effort.
This is the fundamental principle of technology.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Immobility results when people end up trapped by the social circumstances into which they are born: the networks in which they are embedded fail to provide them with the information and opportunities that they need to succeed.”
― Matthew O. Jackson, The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

“What is characteristic of philosophy is not a
special subject-matter, but the aim of knowing one's way around with respect to the subject-matters of all the special disciplines.”
― Wilfrid Sellars, Science, Perception and Reality

“Participating in the filling of others' brains with knowledge and know-how is just an extraordinary gift only very few have. Hence, teaching a language is indeed opening these brains to the world with its similarities and dissimilarities taught in different words.”
― Messaoud Mohammed

“It’s too pragmatic for me,” Valenti said. “The know-how is good enough for technology, not for science.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp