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.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

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

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Science is but an image of the truth.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

George Carlin’s album, ‚Class Clown,‘ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

Knowledge is power.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

In high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.

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.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

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

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Example is leadership.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

They know enough who know how to learn.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

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.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.