Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

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.

If they exert it not for good they will for evil if they advance not knowledge they will perpetuate ignorance.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer preferably a scientifically trained observer provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application as we do on acquiring facts.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions by their choice.

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

There's no question that as science knowledge and technology advance that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal it can only be of value to minds that are not.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.

You don't need an explanation for everything Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.