Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin and I've spoken with athletes who for years afterward have been tormented by the knowledge that had they done something ever so slightly different they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything while the former lights up knowledge'.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Later I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Books minister to our knowledge to our guidance and to our delight by their truth their uprightness and their art.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

There is no knowledge no light no wisdom that you are in possession of but what you have received it from some source.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

And I pray thee loving Jesus that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

If you have knowledge let others light their candles in it.

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast nor blasted were their wedded days with strife each season looked delightful as it past to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion but a blight bred in the cloudy damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Give light and people will find the way.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated so much more developed particularly in young people that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something they can make of it what they will.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.