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

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

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

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

A right delayed is a right denied.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

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.

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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.

America is just downright mean.

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

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

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

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?

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The artist in me cries out for design.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

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

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

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

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Beauty without expression is boring.

A letter does not blush.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

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

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.