A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef once you have that basis that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

The knowledge of anything since all things have causes is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence that people can get promotions for because it could result in results.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer stronger and wiser.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex and the foundation of intelligence.

There is no one who possesses intelligence and uses reflection who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

I think what he's - what he believes and he may be correct I don't know that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

You know as director of the CIA I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

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

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural educational aesthetic inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

I think the end goal hopefully is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people I inspire the public I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves! Why thirty or forty skins or hides as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

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.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.