Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. — Albert Einstein

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. ― Elbert Hubbard

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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I love hearing educated people speak and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice. — Zendaya

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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. ― Richard Feynman

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -- James Madison

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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. - William Shakespeare

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And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie. ― T. A. Miles, Raventide

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