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

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

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

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

We are wiser than we know.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

The proper study of mankind is books.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

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

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

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

When I say ‚Crush your enemy‘, I don’t literally mean it.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

There’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don’t exist.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Trump has no sense of shame.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

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.

America is just downright mean.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.