I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous – a no-nonsense guy.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.