The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions the hard questions before not afterwards and get the right intelligence.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately you rarely hear a patient careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.

Where the stakes are the highest in the war on terror we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing planning and collaborative enforcement.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format using their talent craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.