We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

To my knowledge the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large expensive use a large amount of energy and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you what exists on the land and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Although your knowledge is weak and small you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more not less.

There is so I believe in the essence of everything something that we cannot call learning. There is my friend only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Knowledge is not eating and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation not an embrace.

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. One can find it live it be fortified by it do wonders through it but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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

Without self knowledge without understanding the working and functions of his machine man cannot be free he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time you cannot have the kind of ingenuity assertiveness independence and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows who with all their stupidity had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

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.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying 'Just watch!'

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.