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.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

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.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The wisest have the most authority.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

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

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

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

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.