Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Study men, not historians.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

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 want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

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

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

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.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

Well done is better than well said.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Many admire, few know.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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